I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. I received my Ph.D. from the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University in May 2013. During the 2013-14 academic year I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.
I am a co-founder of the Community Engagement + Experiments Lab at the University of Oklahoma and I serve on its faculty advisory board.
I am a co-founder of the Community Engagement + Experiments Lab at the University of Oklahoma and I serve on its faculty advisory board.
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Discrimination in action: the value of experiments in human rights
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Discrimination in action: the value of experiments in human rights (openDemocracy)
Exclusion and the European project: building trust with Roma communities (Politikon)
(trust game description here)
Discrimination, cooperation, and building communities (openDemocracy)
(you can find more details here)
To discredit victims, call them terrorists (with Amanda Murdie) (openDemocracy)
How to reduce discrimination: Getting to know the Roma (Monkey Cage)
Exclusion and the European project: building trust with Roma communities (Politikon)
(trust game description here)
Discrimination, cooperation, and building communities (openDemocracy)
(you can find more details here)
To discredit victims, call them terrorists (with Amanda Murdie) (openDemocracy)
How to reduce discrimination: Getting to know the Roma (Monkey Cage)
PUBLICATIONS
Reaching the Individual: EU Accession, NGOs, and Human Rights
(American Political Science Review 110(3): 530-546.)
paper appendix
Is Sexism for White People? Gender Stereotypes, Race, and the 2016 Presidential Election
with Mackenzie Israel-Trummel and Allyson Shortle
(forthcoming in Political Behavior)
paper
(American Political Science Review 110(3): 530-546.)
paper appendix
Is Sexism for White People? Gender Stereotypes, Race, and the 2016 Presidential Election
with Mackenzie Israel-Trummel and Allyson Shortle
(forthcoming in Political Behavior)
paper
BOOK PROJECT
Breaking the Exclusion Cycle
Breaking the Exclusion Cycle
Social exclusion of marginalized populations is an intractable problem of global relevance. It occurs when individuals or groups cannot participate in typical activities of the societies in which they live. For some, that means having to go to a segregated school. For others it means not being able to get gainful employment, and for others still, it means not having access to quality healthcare. Minority groups in a number of diverse nations contend with social exclusion. This book develops a novel theory of how individual behaviors contribute to its persistence, and presents a possible solution. I introduce the "exclusion cycle," which consists of four parts. Anti-minority culture gives rise to discrimination by members of the majority. Members of the minority anticipate maltreatment and develop survival strategies. Members of the majority often disapprove of minority’s survival strategies and attribute them to the minority as such, and not the discrimination, and so commit an attribution error. Such errors feed the existing anti-minority culture and the cycle repeats. The book offers evidence that the cycle can be broken, showing that NGO-promoted dialogue and intergroup contact strategies can help reduce discrimination against marginalized populations.
Breaking the Exclusion Cycle grounds this theory in novel empirical work, including an original videogame that captures discrimination and survival strategies within a single, contained environment. While I develop the theory in the context of Muslim women in France, black Americans, and the Batwa in Uganda, the empirical portion is centered on the social exclusion of Roma (derogatively known as "Gypsies"). I provide original evidence I collected over twelve months of fieldwork to illustrate the theory and support my argument that the cycle can be broken. The centerpiece are two lab-in-field experiments that capture discriminatory behavior by non-Roma and survival strategies by Roma, which are supplemented by interviews, field observations, and surveys. While the empirics focus on the Roma, the theory as well as the implications of the findings apply to other cases of marginalized populations.