Annual Meeting
Our annual meeting will take place in beautiful Boulder CO on Friday September 19th, 2025 from 9am-5pm in Kittredge MPR (2480 Kittredge Loop Dr, Boulder, CO 80309). We will have a reception at the UMC Connection from 5pm-7pm (bowling, billiards, games, etc.). The event is co-organized with the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC).
We have closed submissions for presentations but still welcome attendee and poster session registration here: https://forms.gle/QAn1rW8NxscXF35X7
9:00am - 9:30am - Opening Remarks w/ Dean Sarah Jackson
9:30am - 11:50am – Session 1
12:00 Noon – 2:00pm Lunch Break
1:30pm – 2:00pm Politics Groups & Identities Editor Panel w/ Regina Branton (Room A)
2:00pm – 3:30pm – Session 2
3:30pm – 3:40pm – Poster Set Up
3:40pm – 4:30pm – Poster Session
4:30pm – 4:50pm – Closing Remarks w/ Rodney Hero
5:00pm – 7:00pm - Bowling Reception at UMC Connection
Talk I – 9:30am – 10:10am. - Matt Lamb (Texas Tech). Is just being Latino enough? Latino co-ethnicity and candidate support.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - Miranda Sullivan (UT Austin). Respectability Politics and the Latinx Community.
Talk III – 11:10am - 11:50am. – Maria Ovalle (Florida International) and George Quinn (Rutgers). Challenging the Narrative - Latino Issue Voting in Presidential Elections.
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Sonja Castañeda Dower (Chicago). Institutional Design, Assimilation, and Political Participation: Evidence from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Talk V – 2:50pm-3:30pm - Alex Richard Zhao (UC San Diego). The Indigenous American Voter
Talk I – 9:30am – 10:10am. - Marques Zárate (Brown) and Cesar Vargas Nunez (CMC). Perceived Immigrant Ideology -- Causes and Consequences.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - Laura Uribe (UC San Diego). Elements of Latinidad: Conceptualizing and Measuring Within-Group Status and its impact on Latine Politics.
Talk III – 11:10am - 11:50am. - Mate Szurop (CU Boulder). Uncertain futures: How did the threat of rescinding DACA impact eligible immigrants’ outcomes?
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Jesús E. Rojas Venzor (UC San Diego). How Right-Wing Populism Incites Cooperation: The Logic of Foreign Policy Co-optation on Migration.
Talk V – 2:50pm-3:30pm - Charlotte Jones and Konstantinos Kambouris (Utah). Who Gets to be Recognized? International Organizations and Selective Security.
Talk I – 9:30am – 10:10am. - Ian Shapiro (Tennessee State). The Psychological Toll of Voting Restrictions in the United States.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - Allie Verrilli (UT Austin). Moving in and Mobilizing: Gentrifiers and Local Political Participation.
Talk III – 11:10am - 11:50am. - Isha Banerjee, Christopher Jackson, and Jaroslav Tir (CU Boulder). Religious-themed Threat Messaging and Sociopolitical Attitudes
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Allison Harris (Yale), Hannah Walker (UT Austin), and Nicholas Ottone (Yale). Group Diversity and Individual Decision-Making.
Talk V – 2:50pm-3:30pm - Gustavo Pérez-Arrobo (CU Boulder). Institutional Change and Economic Volatility in Latin America: the effect of Presidentialism.
Talk I – 9:30am – 10:10am. - Rachel O'Neal (CU Boulder). Heterocisnormativity Index.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - Taylor Sosa (Colorado State). The Successful Diffusion of Gender-Affirming Care Bans In The U.S.: How Partisanship Functions as a Mechanism Of Policy Diffusion.
Talk III – 11:10am - 11:50am. - Mateusz Leszczynski (CU Boulder). Beyond Religiosity: The Drivers of Anti-LGBTQ+ Conspiracy Beliefs in Poland.
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Allan Tellis (CU Boulder). Booker T. Washington's Empowered Citizen: The Institutionalization of Antipower.
Talk V – 2:50pm-3:30pm - Saliha Garcia (Texas A&M). Pathways to Power: Immigration and Women’s School Board Representation