Alexander Kustov is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Political Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research focuses on public and policy responses to immigration and ethnic conflict in high-income countries. His book project “Borders of Compassion” examines under what conditions most people accept more open immigration policies. His book "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" will be released in April 2025.

Anne Meng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Her research centers on authoritarian politics, institutions, and elite power sharing. Her book, Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2020), won the Riker Book Prize and was listed as a 2021 Best Book by Foreign Affairs. She has also published articles on authoritarian ruling parties, rebel regimes, opposition cooptation, term limit evasion, leadership succession, and democratic backsliding.

Shane Singh is the Joshua W. Jones Professor of Public and International Affairs and the director of graduate studies in the Department of International Affairs within the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia. He is an instructor in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. He has been a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a post-doctoral researcher with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University and the Making Electoral Democracy Work project at the University of Montreal. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University.

Libby Jenke is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. From 2024-2025, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University. Additionally, Libby is a faculty affiliate of the Political Psychology Research Group (PPRG) at Stanford University and the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) at Harvard University. Her Ph.D. in political science is from Duke University, where she was also a member of Scott Huettel's neuroscience laboratory in Duke's Psychology and Neuroscience department.

What: Public Perceptions of Immigration & Democracy

Where: North Quadrangle Residential and Academic Complex, 2435 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Date: Thursday, March 13  |  Time: 2:30pm to 4:00pm