C-SoDA Research Round Up

C-SoDA will be holding its annual “Research Roundup” event on Friday, February 2 from 12:15- 1:45 pm in B001 Sparks (the databasement). This event will highlight the research that has been conducted over the last year with support from C-SoDA. The projects presented at the Roundup will include work from:

Johabed Olvera Esquivel, Assistant Professor in School of Public Policy/ Isaac Pollert, Postdoctoral fellow/ Hilary Wething, Economist at the Economic Policy Institute

Title: "Improving Maternal and Child Health of Working Families: The Role of Social Policy Design"

2. Chenyang (Sara) He, graduate student, Department of Psychology/ Tianyi Zhang , graduate student, Department of Psychology

Title: "From Campaign Trail to Corporate Halls: Unraveling the Impact of Hillary Clinton's Bid on Female Leadership in Fortune 500 Companies"

3. Michael Berkman, Professor, Department of Political Science/ Michael Burnham, graduate student, Department of Political Science/ Eric Plutzer, Professor, Department of Political Science

Title: "Word embedding and document classification models to measure political culture in the United States, 1870 – 2022"

4. Xun Cao, Professor, Department of Political Science

Title: "How Does Public Opinion Affect Climate Change Policies? Constructing Measures of Climate Change Public Concern and Testing Their Effects on Climate Policy Outputs"

5. Guangqing Chi, Professor, Department of Rural Sociology and Demography / Bing Pan, Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management/ Colby Parkinson, graduate student, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management

Title: "Expanding Methods and Understanding of Trail Use and Users at Grand Canyon National Park with Spatial Applications of Big Data"

6. Sojung Baek, graduate student, Department of Anthropology

Title: "Empathic signaling and social capital among women with labor migrant husbands in Bangladesh"

7. Nitheesha Nakka, graduate student, Department of Political Science

Title: “Race, Gender, and Digital Politics: Examining Subnational Political Elites on Twitter”