Minorities in Social Sciences would like to invite you to attend our visiting speaker series!
This semester MSS at Rice University has invited some incredible scholars to present their timely and innovative research. This is an opportunity to highlight the great work of underrepresented junior scholars and engage with their work. We invite all to learn with us and hopefully provide these young scholars with some constructive feedback.
“Who Can Afford to Voice? Examining the Role of Resources in the Employee Voice Process.” February 11th @ 1pm (central), in person @ Duncan Hall and online via Zoom
Cassandra Phetmisy
Cassandra Phetmisy is a third-year Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD student at Rice University. She will present her findings from her master’s thesis, “Who Can Afford to Voice? Examining the Role of Resources in the Employee Voice Process.” Work, money, and the economy are the most common stressors for adults in the United States. Financial stressors may highlight the importance and precarity of work— motivating employees to avoid risky behaviors, even those that may be necessary or beneficial. Thus, it is valuable to explore how financial stress may increase barriers for positive risk-taking in the workplace. In the current study, Cassandra examines how financial stress impacts a critical, desired form of risk-taking at work: voice, through employees’ perceptions of riskiness. The study utilizes a multi-source and multi-time point design to understand the effects of employees’ financial stress on their voice behaviors at work. This work offers both theoretical integration and expansion to the voice and financial stress domains, and offers actionable practical implications for organizational leaders and decision-makers.
“When and Why Racial Attitudes Change: Barack Obama and The Case of Black and Hispanic Adults.” October 28th @ 1pm (central), via Zoom
Julian Culver
Julian Culver is a doctoral candidate at Rice University’s Department of Sociology. Julian also manages the Racism and Racial Experiences (RARE) Workgroup at Rice University. He will be presenting a chapter from his dissertation titled, “When and Why Racial Attitudes Change: Barack Obama and The Case of Black Adults.” To date, scholars who study attitudes have placed particular emphasis on how factors such as personality, emotions, and persuasion influence what and how individuals think. As a result scholars know more about the correlates of racial attitudes and far less about when and why they change. In this chapter Julian explores the effect of social structures and processes and demonstrates how they predict racial attitude change among Black adults. Moreover, Julian’s dissertation makes a major contribution by investigating the changes in Black and Hispanic adults’ racial attitudes before and after Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election.
“A Logical Model for Predicting Minority Representation: Application to Redistricting and Voting Rights Cases” September 29th @ 12pm, Sewall Hall 303
Yuki Atsusaka
Yuki Atsusaka is PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. He will be presenting his paper, “A Logical Model for Predicting Minority Representation: Application to Redistricting and Voting Rights Cases.” Please join us for an exciting, timely, and important topic. See Yuki’s website here: https://atsusaka.org
Minorities in Social Sciences and the RARE Workgroup invite you to a beginning of the semester happy hour!
The Minorities in Social Sciences (MSS) and the Racism and Racial Experiences (RARE) Workgroup invite all graduate students for a happy hour at Valhalla September 24th starting at 6:00 p.m.! MSS and the RARE Workgroup are organizations dedicated to increasing the presence of underrepresented minorities in the social sciences. Come down to Valhalla to learn more about our organizations and how you can get involved!
Drinks and snacks will be provided