PRIEC@UCSB Conference Program on May 8, 2026, 8:30am-7pm
Host: UCSB Department of Political Science; Co-sponsors: College of Social Sciences, Graduate Student Association, Migration Initiative, Department of Asian American Studies, and Center for Black Studies Research
Meeting Venue: IHC McCune Conference Rm (HSSB 6020—for panels #1, 2,3, 5 & all events except dinner); The Lane Room (Ellison Hall 3824—for panels #4 and #6), Multicultural Center Lounge (University Center 1504—for dinner reception)
Visitor Info for HSSB (Humanities and Social Science Building) 6020--IHC McCune Conference Rm is on the 6th floor, look to the right after exiting the elevator.
8:30—Breakfast (HSSB 6028)
8:50 –Welcome & Opening Remarks (Interim departmental chair Mahdavi; PRIEC@UCSB co-hosts, Lien, Parker, Orr, Gonzalez, and Rice; PRIEC@ASU, Pedraza)
9:00–10:40 – Panel #1: U.S. Public Opinion, Perceptions, & Representation
Chair/Location: Christopher Parker, UCSB, HSSB 6020
Effects of Humorous Counterspeech on Support for Undocumented Immigrants
Hyojin Lee & Prateekshit "Kanu" Pandey, UCSB
Fentanyl and Fear: Public Perceptions of the Opioid Crisis and Undocumented Immigrants in the Western United States
Pierce Christoffersen, UCSB
Variations in the Perception of Antisemitism among the American Public
Bai Linh Hoang & Josh Slatter, U of Texas, Arlington
Racial Comparability in Authoritarianism Scales: Latent Beliefs or Biased Measurement?
Bang Zheng, U of Texas, Austin
Senators Good, Senate Bad: Institutional Design and Unequal Representation in Congress
G. Agustin Markarian, Loyola U—Chicago
10:40-10:50 Morning Coffee/Tea Break (HSSB 6028)
10:50-12:30—Panel #2: Political Mobilization and Behavior
Chair/Location: Alfredo Gonzalez, UCSB, HSSB 6020
Normative Expectations Prompting Color-Conscious and Color-Blind Mobilization
Mckenzie Bennet, U of Notre Dame
When Exclusion Mobilizes: Institutional Design, Collective Action, and Political Participation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Sonja Castaneda Dower, U of Chicago
Running in Context: Marginalization, Political Ambition, and Candidate Emergence
Iris Acquarone, ASU
A Comprehensive Theory of Immigration-Based Voting Among Latinos in the 2016 and 2020 Elections
Juan Espinoza & Jason Morin, CSU Northridge; Yoshira Macias Mejia, Montclair State U; and Gabriel R. Sanchez, U of New Mexico
Exclusion in Political Polling and Voter Demobilization: The Case of Asian Americans
Nathan Chan, LMU & Joyce Nguy, UCLA
12:30 - Lunch Break (Grab a Bite from the Sandwich Buffet in HSSB 6028)
12:45-1:10--Lunch-n-learn Information Session: Presenting the 2024 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) by Lorrie Frasure & Natalie Masuoka, UCLA (HSSB 6020)
1:30-2:50--Panel #3: Media Framing, Context, and Campaign
Chair/Location: Guadalupe Madrigal, UCSB, HSSB 6020
Media as a Context of Reception: Intergroup Symbolic Environments and Migration
Muniba Saleem & Ismaharif Ismail, UCSB
Immigrant Race Doesn't Matter? Exploring the Impacts of Childhood and Race Cues in News Media
Guadalupe Madrigal, UCSB
Spillover of Hostile Media Frames of Asian Countries into American Public's Opinions of Asian Groups
Jialing Zhou, UC Merced
Digital Political Incorporation: A Contemporary Pathway to Office
Deshdeep Dhankhar, UCSB
1:30-2:50--Panel #4: Comparative Politics
Chair/Location: Raymond Orr, UCSB, EH3824
The Color of Politics: Skin Tone and Attitudes towards Caste-Based Voting
Amit Ahuja, UCSB
Who Belongs? Migration Governance and the Construction of Public Attitudes
Jun Mung Park, UI-Urbana Champaign
Civic Homelessness: How Deported Veterans Frame Service, Citizenship, and Belonging
Mason Miller, UCSB
Who Would Leave Slovakia If Russia Invaded? The Economic, Political, Religious, and Demographic Determinants of Slovaks' Propensity to Flee Abroad
Joel Fetzer, Pepperdine U
2:50-3:20 Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break (in both HSSB 6028 and EH 3824)
3:20-4:40--Panel #5: Intergroup Contact and Threat
Chair/Location: Cynthia Kaplan, UCSB, HSSB 6020
Beyond Contact: How Intergroup Relations with Natives Shape Immigrant Political Integration
Younghyun Lee, UI-Urbana Champaign
The Immigration-to-Reproduction Shift: Latino Population Growth and White Support for Abortion
Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate U
Hierarchies Among the Same: State Categories, Intergroup Relations, and Conditional Belonging Among Co-ethnic Migrants in South Korea
Eun-A Park, Waseda U, Japan
Ethnic Trust in the Time of Corporate Management
Zhai Gen Tan & Grace Jang, UCSB
3:20-4:40--Panel #6: Minority Groups and Attitudes
Chair/Location: AJ Rice, UCSB, EH3824
Between Asian American Identity and the "Muslim Ban": Pan-Ethnic Identification Among Afghan Americans
Nura Sediqe, Michigan State U
The Consistency of Immigrants' Political Beliefs Between Their Home versus Host Country
Ewon Baik, U Southern California
Internalizing the Narrative: How Latinx Immigrants' Attitudes about Criminality Predict Support for Draconian Immigration Policy in the US
Makenna Cabrera, UC Davis
Latinos and The Law: How Supreme Court Rulings Affect Group Perceptions of Judicial Legitimacy
Sofia Rosales, Michigan State U
5:00-5:25—Closing Remarks and Reflections (led by PRIEC@ASU, PRIEC@UCSB co-hosts, in HSSB 6020)
5:40-7:00—Post-event Dinner Reception (Multicultural Center Lounge, UCen 1504) 🎉 🥳