Publications:
Perry, B.N., Zuhlke, S. & Tormos-Aponte, F. (2021). An Intersectional Organizing Approach to Diversity in Political Methodology: The Data Lab @TAMU POLS. Accepted for PS Symposium Series on Diversity and Inclusion in Political Science.
"Seeing Spanish: The Effects of Language Based Media Choices on Resentment and Belonging" (2020) with Johanna Dunaway, Joshua Darr and Mingxiao Sui. Political Communication.
"Validating a measure of perceived parent-child political socialization" (2019) With Francisco Pedraza. Political Research Quarterly.
"Bridging the Gap: How Geographic Context Affects Political Knowledge Among Citizen and Non-Citizen Latinos." (2015) With Christopher D. DeSante. American Politics Research.
"Richard Fenno's Theory of Congressional Committees and the Partisan Polarization of the House." (2013) With John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde. In Congress Reconsidered, Tenth Edition.
"House Appropriations After the Republican Revolution." (2012) With John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde. In Congress and the Presidency. 39: 1-25.
Work in Progress:
Changing Attitudes Toward Reparations." With Saron Araya (undergraduate student)
"Testing Strategies to Increase Tolerance Across Polarized Lines" With Jessica Gottlieb and Mallory Compton. (T3 funded project)
"Closing the Gender Gap in Undergraduate Political Methodology Training." With Diana Z. O'Brien.
"Contact Theory and Immigration Attitudes: An Experimental Test of Service Learning"
Dissertation:
The Political Representation of Non-Citizen Latinos: An Analysis of Legislative Motivations.
This project examines the political representation of non-citizen Latinos in the U.S. states. Specifically, I investigate why lawmakers would be compelled to engage in substantive activities to meet the needs and interests of this non-citizen, non-voting population.
The primary data source utilized is an original collection of state sponsored legislation from 2005-2014 from AZ, CA, FL, NC, and NM. Unlike similar immigration bills projects (e.g. NCSL), this dataset includes not only bills that have been signed into law, but all sponsored proposals to benefit and restrict immigrant groups and bills to help or hinder Latinos more broadly. I also include all major rolls calls on such legislation and corresponding member and district data.
My secondary data source is a collection of over 25 personal interviews and 140 lawmaker surveys fielded across various U.S. states.