Annual Meeting 2025
This page is an archive of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Barney Ford Lab (co-organized with PRIEC). We ended up having 70+ people from Colorado, Utah, Texas, California, Florida, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland attend.
Best paper was won by Alex Richard Zhao (UC San Diego). Best poster was won by Reginald Pulley (Maryland).
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).
If you're in town early, we'll be having informal happy hour the night before (Thursday 9/18) at Sanitas Brewing (3550 Frontier Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301) from 6-8pm MT.
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. - Samantha Register (CU Boulder). Look What She Made You Do? Examining the Impact of Parasocial Bonds with Celebrities on Political Behavior.
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