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Public condemnation of identity-based violence is generally widespread, but new research shows this opposition may be surprisingly fragile. In this talk, Princeton University Professors Rafaela Dancygier and Jonathan Mummolo present evidence showing how the language and media framing used to describe violent hate crimes—such as framing attacks on Jews in nationalist, anti-Zionist rather than religious terms—erodes Americans' opposition to these attacks, with parallel patterns emerging for violence against Muslims and Hindus. The discussion will be moderated by Princeton University Professor Ismail White.

Rafaela Dancygier holds the IBM Chair of International Studies at Princeton University, where she is Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs. Dancygier is Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and Director of the Initiatives on Contemporary European Affairs (ICEA). Her research examines how social and economic divides structure political conflict in Europe and the United States. Dancygier covers topics such as immigration, radical right populism, political extremism, gender equality, and housing crises and gentrification.Her first book Immigration and Conflict in Europe explains when and why immigration destinations witness conflict between immigrants and natives, between immigrants and the state, or no conflict at all. Her second book, Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics examines how minority groups are incorporated into politics and studies the consequences of this inclusion for the nature of party politics, electoral realignments and gender equality. Her articles have appeared in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, World Politics, and elsewhere.

Jonathan Mummolo is an Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He studies American politics with a focus on bias and discrimination. He devotes particular focus to law enforcement agencies and police-civilian interactions. His work explores several facets of policing, including how controversial tactics are deployed in time and space, how rules and procedures affect the nature and volume of police-civilian interactions, the role of race in police behavior, and how police tactics affect perceptions of law enforcement and crime. He also conducts related methodological research on causal inference, statistical modeling, and experimental design. Much of this work focuses on how to perform credible statistical analyses of administrative data while explicitly accounting for its deficiencies. His research has appeared in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics, among other peer-reviewed journals. Mummolo arrived at Princeton in 2017 after earning a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. Before entering academia, he worked as a staff writer at The Washington Post covering crime and politics in the D.C. region.

Dr. 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.

Sponsors
Co-sponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Co-sponsored by the University Center for Human Values
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Life
Co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies