Dear RSF:

Please join us next Wednesday, March 29, at 11 for Visiting Scholar Jennifer Chudy’s presentation, “With Sympathy: Rethinking American Racial Politics.”

Chudy is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Wellesley College, where she has been appointed since 2017. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a BA in Political Science from Brown University. Prior to attending graduate school she worked in politics at the federal, state & local levels. Chudy studies race and ethnicity in American politics, exploring the relationship between voters’ attitudes about race and their political opinions and behavior. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Salon.com. At Wellesley she has been both a member of the Knapp Social Science Center Fellow’s program and a faculty research award winner.

At RSF she is working on a book project which examines racial sympathy, defined as White distress over Black suffering, and its role in American politics. Chudy is exploring whether and how the Trump presidency and recent racial unrest have impacted racial sympathy and how racial sympathy might be channeled into political action.