Hannah Walker

Yellow school bus on a Chicago city street

Three political scientists about to board a school bus on a Chicago city street

Cover of the program for the 2025 Civic Power convening of The Sentencing Project. Cover is an illustration of Chicago’s skyline.

I’ve not been on a school bus in years. And I’d never been on one w @melissamichelson.bsky.social & @hlw.bsky.social until tonight! Thank you @sentencingproject.bsky.social for an evening of fellowship & clips of the film “And Water Brings Tomorrow” (ashleyhunt.info/andwaterbrin...)

Favorite quote from the morning plenary: “Collective resistance is political kryptonite” #CivicPower2025 @hlw.bsky.social @sentencingproject.bsky.social

And now we have a tag for our excellent coauthor @SamRothEA!! Great working with you, Sam!

Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social

ExpandingEngagement

Still lots left to learn -- check out our ongoing work at the Expanding Engagement Lab, where we use social science research to improve participation among marginalized groups in American politics!

expandingengagement.org

Against a more traditional informational mailer. Our trusted messenger approach increased new and updated registrations by 45% relative to the uncontacted control group, an effect which is statistically distinguishable from an impersonal approach

We tested a trusted-messenger approach w/ a letter written by a formerly incarcerated person sharing their story and encouraging people to vote

We worked w/ #NJISJ to test effective ways of making newly enfranchised people aware of their rights. We combine ethnographic work with organizers w/ a field test of the strategies and tactics they viewed as successful

NJ restored rights to people w/ felony convictions serving time on probation and parole in 2019, following #NJISJs #1844NoMore campaign njisj.org/1844nomore/

Getting Out the (Newly-Enfranchised) Vote: Encouraging Voter Registration After Rights Restoration - Political Behavior Academic research describes low rates of political participation among people with criminal convictions, but offers few ideas about how to reach these low-propensity voters. After New Jersey expanded ...

Super excited this is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @melissamichelson.bsky.social #SamRoth & @dosocialjustice.bsky.social

"Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Getting Out the (Newly-Enfranchised) Vote: Encouraging Voter Registration After Rights Restoration - Political Behavior Academic research describes low rates of political participation among people with criminal convictions, but offers few ideas about how to reach these low-propensity voters. After New Jersey expanded ...

Partnering with @dosocialjustice.bsky.social, we used a multi-method approach to find a promising means of registering justice-impacted citizens to vote @arielrwhite.bsky.social @hlw.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @polbehavior.bsky.social

map of the united states black with dots of protests in places both big and small

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*

ExpandingEngagement

Can’t wait :) got some FRESH work from the #ExpandinfEngagementLab
for y’all, and so excited to see what you’ve been working on! cc: @allipatter.bsky.social @arielrwhite.bsky.social expandingengagement.org

Slideshow title: The Carceral System and Political Participation

Looking forward to presenting our work on the political behavior of incarcerated people tomorrow at CUNY! This is one of the more exciting papers I've worked on during grad school. We're also presenting findings at ASA in Chicago later this summer.

It's also very cool that @hlw.bsky.social has the presentation slot right after us. Workshop attendees are going to get a whole afternoon full of politics-of-criminalization research :)

Check out our newest in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! Project led by our outstanding grad student Allison Verrilli - she’s on the market and she’s a star ⭐️ #UTexas #HookEm

More from the Chronicle of Higher Ed:

archive.is/eUyZK

UNC-Chapel Hill Has Delayed Tenure Votes in Most Departments This Spring UNC-Chapel Hill trustees didn't approve tenure cases outside of health-related schools at the last two meetings.

Administrative takeover. See, they don't have to actually legislate the abolition of tenure. They can achieve the same ends once they've captured the administration, as they are currently doing at UNC, one of the largest public systems in the country:

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Hey y’all! One week till the deadline!! Don’t miss it!

cc @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social

One of my absolute favorite conferences every year!!

Logo of JREP with the text "New Issue online" set against a background of red dots of varying sizes on a gray backdrop.

NEW ISSUE -

Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Race & January 6th - Volume 10 - Issue 1 - cup.org/4jqxZ0u

Special issue on Race & January 6th

#JREP10 #Jan6 #J6

Feeling good about the ties that bind: neighborhood quality and affective linked fate among Black Americans Middle-class African Americans are more likely to live in neighborhoods with lower average incomes, more poverty, abandoned and boarded-up homes, single-parent households, and fewer college graduat...

Check out my new paper w/ #CandisWattsSmith and #TehamaLopezBunyasi in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social!!

"Feeling good about the ties that bind: Neighborhood quality and affective linked fate among Black Americans"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And check her out while your at it!!

agverrilli.com

New Faces, Changing Spaces: How Gentrification Shapes Household Demand for Policing - Allison Verrilli, 2025 How does gentrification impact household demand for policing? Previous research finds that gentrification is associated with more calls to the police but cannot...

Check out this new pub from my excellent student & coauthor #AllisonVerrilli in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social!!

She's on the market folks, get it while it's hot!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out our article on the impact of the George Floyd protests on downstream police behavior, now out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

Not for nothing, but first presented this paper for feedback at #JusticeAndInjustice -- get those apps in!

Re-upping this! Come hang with the #JusticeAndInjustice crew at MIT in November! cc: @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social

cc: @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social