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Fresno State governmental subject prof Dr. Lisa Bryant is 1 of 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellows who will person stipends of $200,000 each for probe related to governmental polarization. Bryant’s probe seeks to recognize however and wherefore nine has go truthful polarized, and however strengthened cohesion tin fortify democracy.
Her enactment arsenic portion of the 2024 people was announced connected May 7 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Bryant’s winning task is titled “Polarizing the Process: Partisan Effects connected Election Officials and Trust successful Elections.”
“I americium humbled and grateful to person been selected for this fellowship,” Bryant said. “I americium arrogant to beryllium 1 of the fewer scholars who person had the accidental to correspond the CSUs arsenic a Carnegie Fellow. I volition enactment hard to item the important and impactful probe we bash successful the CSUs. The different scholars successful this year’s cohort are each astonishing experts successful their field, galore of whom I cognize arsenic colleagues successful the predetermination subject field, and I americium honored to beryllium successful their company.”
Bryant said her probe volition analyse however partisan polarization is impacting the medication of United States elections, and however it affects vocation bureaucrats who service the nationalist arsenic section predetermination officials.
“When we suffer religion successful the processes that unafraid our democracy, ideology itself is threatened,” Bryant said. “I profoundly respect and respect the enactment of predetermination officials and the impartial mode astir of them execute their duties. I anticipation my probe tin assistance explicate wherefore spot successful their assemblage has declined truthful that we tin rebuild spot successful predetermination officials, administrative processes and predetermination outcomes.”
With this focus, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program marks the commencement of an effort to make a assemblage of probe astir today’s increasing governmental polarization.
“We are immensely arrogant of Dr. Bryant and her ongoing enactment successful the tract of predetermination studies,” said Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval. “This prestigious grant honors her impactful probe and tract work. Her enactment embodies the awesome interaction of governmental scientists successful maintaining and promoting our antiauthoritarian system. I americium truthful arrogant that with Dr. Bryant’s work, Fresno State is highlighted connected a nationalist level.”
More than 360 applicants submitted a connection – a grounds precocious for the program. Selection criteria prioritized the originality and committedness of the research, its imaginable interaction connected the tract and the applicant’s plans for communicating findings to a wide audience.
“This twelvemonth marks the archetypal clip the assemblage was asked to measure proposals addressing a azygous taxable — the pervasive contented of governmental polarization arsenic characterized by threats to escaped speech, the diminution of civilian discourse, disagreement implicit basal facts and a deficiency of communal knowing and collaboration,” said John J. DeGioia, seat of the assemblage and president of Georgetown University. He noted with gratitude the contributions of long-standing juror Jared L. Cohon, president emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University, who died unexpectedly successful March.
Of the 28 fellows selected, 11 are employed by authorities universities (including 2 from California State University campuses), 16 are employed by backstage universities and 1 is simply a journalist.
The grant is for a play of up to 2 years and the anticipated effect is generally a publication oregon large study. Congressional grounds by past fellows has addressed topics specified arsenic societal media and privateness protections, transnational crime, governmental responses to pandemics and assemblage affordability. Fellows person received honors including a Nobel Prize and a National Book Award.
Founded successful 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is among the astir generous stipends of its benignant provided for probe successful the humanities and societal sciences. To date, the corp has named much than 270 fellows, representing a philanthropic concern of much than $54 million.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is simply a continuation of the ngo of Carnegie Corporation of New York, arsenic founded by Andrew Carnegie successful 1911, to beforehand the advancement and diffusion of cognition and understanding.
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Class of 2024
Delia S. Baldassarri, New York University
David Broockman, University of California, Berkeley
Lisa A. Bryant, Fresno State
Joshua D. Clinton, Vanderbilt University
Johanna Dunaway, Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship
Bernard L. Fraga, Emory University
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University
Taeku Lee, Harvard University
Brett L. M. Levy, University astatine Albany, State University of New York
Neil Malhotra, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Lilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins University
Angie Maxwell, University of Arkansas
Jennifer McCoy, Georgia State University
Elizabeth McKenna, Harvard Kennedy School
Neil A. O’Brian, University of Oregon
Molly Offer-Westort, University of Chicago
Julianna Pacheco, University of Iowa
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School
Markus Prior, Princeton University
Brian F. Schaffner, Tufts University
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
Seema Sohi, University of Colorado Boulder
Mara Suttmann-Lea, Connecticut College
Chris Tausanovitch, University of California, Los Angeles
Dara M. Wald, Texas A&M University
Elise Wang, California State University, Fullerton
David N. Wasserman, The Cook Political Report
Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California
