At the Spring 2024 PRICE Brown Bag Workshop, five graduate students in the Cornell Government Department will present on working projects, with research ranging from the political economy of credit reliance to intersectional approaches in studying policy preferences.

Presenting students give a short presentation, then receive extended feedback from the group.

Presenters

Grace Beals will present her interview protocol for her dissertation on how credit reliance impacts borrowers' political-economic outcomes.

Trevor Brown will present his working dissertation chapter "Between State and Market: The Political Development of Home Care, 1970 - 2019.” This paper charts the political development of one of the largest, fastest-growing yet precarious sets of workers in the United States: the home health and personal care aide. In doing so, it introduces a new concept--the "public-private workforce"--and offers a theoretical framework to help understand the distinct labor politics created by the American state's increasing reliance on private sector workers to complete what are putatively public goods.

Amanda S. Chen will present a working paper entitled “The Hate You Give: How State-Based Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation is Hurting Children,” where she plans to examine the relationship between anti-Black hate crimes in primary and secondary schools and the rise of anti-critical race theory policies across the United States.

Amaya M. Gaines will present two working projects, one of which asks how gender and class influence policy priorities and preferences within the African American community and the other of which investigates the impact of fringe economy services, including payday loans, cash checking king establishments, and pawn shops, on political engagement, policy attitudes, and institutional trust among Americans.

Marissa S. Rivera will present her working prospectus, which examines the political development of the collateral consequences of incarceration. Specifically, she considers how, why, and when social welfare policies became mechanisms for punishment.