In this session, we invited two PhD students from different disciplines to discuss a current project and how they apply intersectionality into their own work. CIW participants had the opportunity to engage in informal discussions about students' ongoing research, as well as successes and challenges regarding the application of intersectionality theory and methods.
Presentation 1 - Tangier Davis, Department of Psychology
Tangier presented a research project she is working on in which she aims to use an intersectional lens to understand the different standards and expectations that we hold for presidential candidates. Her goals are to: (a) understand how identity shapes how people respond to presidential candidates, and (b) think about the unfair advantages that people of color have when entering the political arena.
Presentation 2 - Angie Perone, Social Work & Sociology
Angie's research helps us understand how bias changes based on context and how it changes over time (e.g. aging). It also sheds light on how people perceive individuals whose identities reflect competing stereotypes based on intersectional positionalities. She hopes that her research will help inform interventions to bias that more accurately reflect the complexities of identities that many people embody.