Dear RSF:
 
Please join us next Wednesday, February 28 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for Visiting Scholar Eunji Kim’s presentation, “Unseen Politics: Hidden Impact of Entertainment Media in Unequal America.” Click here to view chapter one from her new book as background reading. Also, she would like everyone who plans to attend to take a brief survey: https://forms.gle/JmgHciTyHSG1qj5o9.
 
Kim is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She was previously appointed to the Political Science department at Vanderbilt University, where she was a Carter Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow from 2020-2022. Kim holds joint PhDs from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Science and Communication, an MA in Statistics from Wharton and a BA in Government from Harvard University. She won the 2021 COVID-19 Innovative Teaching Award from Vanderbilt as well as the 2020 Best Dissertation in Political Psychology Award from the American Political Science Association.
 
At RSF, in addition to her book (under contract to Princeton University Press), she has been working on a project which examines the relationship between media exposure and mass attitudes toward policing. She is drawing on survey data, Nielsen ratings data, and experiments to investigate the extent to which widespread exposure to popular police procedural TV shows, ranging from Blue Bloods to Chicago P.D, promotes favorable attitudes toward the police and excessive use of force.