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Undergraduate Research Opportunities

We seek undergrads with a genuine interest in the areas of politics, digital media, and inequality who want to deepen their experience with communication research. Students play a meaningful role in research projects, contributing both their time and ideas to answering the question at hand.

Undergraduate Research Assistants engage in activities such as:

• Participating in weekly lab meetings
• Conducting literature reviews
• Designing and testing experiments
• Coding media content
• Analyzing existing data
• Managing laboratory studies
• Helping to draft research summaries

Our RAs have applied their experiences in the lab to careers in law school, government, and academia. 

We ask for a minimum commitment of 5/hrs a week (2 RA credits) per quarter.

Graduate Researchers

We seek grad students whose research interests are well-matched with the lab and who want to take a leading role in conducting research. This should be an opportunity to increase your knowledge of the literature, attain hands on experience with various methodologies, and get authorship on conference papers and journal articles.

Involvement can include, reviewing literature, designing and executing studies, leading undergraduate student teams, conducting quantitative analyses, and writing papers. While some projects will be initiated and led by faculty, this lab is also a space for nurturing graduate student-led work.

Doctoral students are strongly encouraged to take the lead on at least 1 research project per year.