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 Ìý(UC San Diego). Best poster was won by (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 ().
If you're in town early, we'll be having informal happy hour the night before (Thursday 9/18) at Sanitas Brewing ()Ìýfrom 6-8pm MT.
We have closed submissions for presentations but still welcome attendee and poster session registration here:
9:00am - 9:30am -ÌýOpening Remarks w/ Dean Sarah Jackson
9:30am - 11:50am –ÌýSession 1
12:00 Noon – 2:00pmÌýLunch Break
1:30pm – 2:00pmÌýPolitics Groups & Identities Editor Panel w/ Regina Branton (Room A)
2:00pm – 3:30pm –ÌýSession 2
3:30pm – 3:40pm – Poster Set Up
3:40pm – 4:30pm –ÌýPoster Session
4:30pm – 4:50pm –ÌýClosing Remarks w/ Rodney Hero
5:00pm – 7:00pm -ÌýBowling Reception at UMC Connection
Talk I – 9:30am – 10:10am. - Ìý(Texas Tech). Is just being Latino enough? Latino co-ethnicity and candidate support.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - Ìý(UT Austin). Respectability Politics and the Latinx Community.
Talk III – 11:10am - 11:50am. – Ìý(Florida International) andÌýÌý(Rutgers).ÌýChallenging the Narrative - Latino Issue Voting in Presidential Elections.
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Ìý(Chicago). Institutional Design, Assimilation, and Political Participation: Evidence from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Talk V – 2:50pm-3:30pm - Ìý(UC San Diego). The Indigenous American Voter
Talk I – 9:30am – 10:10am. - Ìý(Brown) andÌýÌý(CMC). Perceived Immigrant Ideology -- Causes and Consequences.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - (Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder). Look What She Made You Do? Examining the Impact of Parasocial Bonds with Celebrities on Political Behavior.
Talk III – 11:10am - 11:50am. - Ìý(Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder). Uncertain futures: How did the threat of rescinding DACA impact eligible immigrants’ outcomes?
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Ìý(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. - Ìý(Tennessee State). The Psychological Toll of Voting Restrictions in the United States.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - Ìý(UT Austin). Moving in and Mobilizing: Gentrifiers and Local Political Participation.
Talk III – 11:10am - 11:50am. - Isha Banerjee,ÌýChristopher Jackson, and Jaroslav Tir (Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder). Religious-themed Threat Messaging and Sociopolitical Attitudes
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Ìý(Yale),ÌýÌý(UT Austin), andÌýÌý(Yale). Group Diversity and Individual Decision-Making.
Talk V – 2:50pm-3:30pm - Gustavo Pérez-ArroboÌý(Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder). Institutional Change and Economic Volatility in Latin America: the effect of Presidentialism.
Talk I – 9:30am – 10:10am. - Ìý(Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder). Heterocisnormativity Index.
Talk II – 10:20am - 11:00am. - Ìý(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 LeszczynskiÌý(Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder). Beyond Religiosity: The Drivers of Anti-LGBTQ+ Conspiracy Beliefs in Poland.
Talk IV - 2:00pm-2:40pm - Allan TellisÌý(Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder). 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
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