Antoine Banks is a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. He is also the Associate Chair and Director of the Government and Politics Experimental Lab. His research interests include racial and ethnic politics, emotions, political psychology, and public opinion. His book, Anger and Racial Politics: The Emotional Foundation of Racial Attitudes in America, published by Cambridge University Press, explores the link between emotions and racial attitudes and the consequences it has for political preferences. His articles have appeared in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Analysis, and Political Psychology.
Byron D’Andra Orey is Professor of Political Science at Jackson State University. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Mississippi Valley State University, an MPA from the University of Mississippi, an M.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Ph.D. from the University of New Orleans. He is also a graduate of the W.K. Kellogg Leadership Institute. He is the former chair of the political science department at Jackson State University and has received over $2.5 million in research grants. His research has been featured on such media outlets as Al Jazeera, MSNBC, CNN, the Daily Beast, and the News Hour (PBS).
Tasha Philpot has spent over 15 years in academia as an award winning author, advisor, and educator. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Marquette University, and a Master of Public Policy and PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Currently, Dr. Philpot is a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also affiliated with the Center for African and African American Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis, and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Philpot’s research focuses on the conditions that enable marginalized groups in American society to function in a more democratic system. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and published in the discipline’s top peer-reviewed journals. She has also authored 3 books, the most recent of which is Conservative But Not Republican: The Paradox of Party Identification and Ideology among African Americans (2017, Cambridge University Press).
Christine Marie Slaughter is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and is jointly appointed in the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the School of Public and International Affairs. Most recently, she was a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine in 2021. In fall 2022, she will be an assistant professor of political science at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Slaughter studies Black politics, political behavior and political psychology, racial and ethnic politics, and poverty in the United States, with particular focus on how African Americans in the United States channel adversity to participate in non-electoral political acts. Her book project in development, “No Strangers to Hardship”: African Americans, Inequality and the Politics of Resilience, develops a theory and measurement of “racial resilience” for lower resource African Americans with frequent engagement in the political system.
Dr. Slaughter studies Black politics, political behavior and political psychology, racial and ethnic politics, and poverty in the United States, with particular focus on how African Americans in the United States channel adversity to participate in non-electoral political acts. Her book project in development, “No Strangers to Hardship”: African Americans, Inequality and the Politics of Resilience, develops a theory and measurement of “racial resilience” for lower resource African Americans with frequent engagement in the political system.
Lafleur Stephens-Dougan currently teaches Politics as an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. She earned her PhD in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan and her BA in Political Science from the University of Rochester. Dr. Stephens-Dougan studies American politics, focusing on race and ethnic politics, public opinion, and experimental methods. She is the author of Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics (University of Chicago Press 2020)
Dr. Stephens is a faculty co-founder of Princeton Research in Experimental Social Science (PRESS) and a co-organizer of the Symposium on the Politics of Immigration (SPIRE). Dr. Stephens-Dougan's research has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation's Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences.
Dr. Stephens is a faculty co-founder of Princeton Research in Experimental Social Science (PRESS) and a co-organizer of the Symposium on the Politics of Immigration (SPIRE). Dr. Stephens-Dougan's research has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation's Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences.
Ismail White is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in political science from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. Dr. White studies American politics with a focus on Black politics, public opinion, and political participation. He is co-author of the recent book Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior (Princeton University Press, 2020), which explains the maintenance of Black unity in party politics through the establishment and enforcement of racial group norms of political behavior. His research has appeared in a range of academic journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Analysis, Journal of Black Studies, Race and Social Problems, and Politics, Groups and Identities. His work has won awards from the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. He currently serves on board of the American National Election Study and as the Director of Survey Research at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.