Prof. Guardino receives PC’s First Russell Sage Grant
Dr. Matt Guardino has received a $34,650 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to conduct a study of public opinion about immigration, titled “Testing the ‘Invisibility Bargain’: Media Imagery, Authoritarianism, and Attitudes Toward Immigrant Social Integration and Political Agency.” Dr. Guardino is collaborating on this project with Dr. Jeffrey Pugh of the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Dr. Guardino and Dr. Pugh, who is a former PC Political Science faculty member, are fielding a nationally representative survey-experiment to investigate how U.S.-born Americans’ ideological identities, psychological characteristics and exposure to visual imagery affect their opinions and beliefs about immigration. The project extends and applies a theory about opposition to immigrant cultural diversity and political rights that Dr. Pugh elaborated in his recent Oxford University Press book. A PC undergraduate student will work as a paid research assistant for the project. The grant is co-funded with the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Russell Sage Foundation was established by Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” It dedicates itself to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences in order to better understand societal problems and develop informed responses.
