Academic
Curriculum Vitae
- My current c.v.
Awards
- Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award, Department of Politics, Princeton University.
Teaching
- Projecting Power
- Description: First-year seminar on ethnic politics
- Summary: Overall rating 4.8 out of 5
- Full course evaluation: Projecting Power
- POL346: Applied Quantitative Analysis
Papers:
- “Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 19:499-522 (Volume publication date May 2016).
- “Agenda Seeding: How subordinate group protests influence media and politics,” forthcoming in American Political Science Review.
Working Papers:
- “Conditional ethnocentrism: Experimental evidence from protests in the United States.”
- “Rousing the Sleeping Giant: How Anti-Immigrant Policies and Rhetoric Angers and Mobilizes Latinos,” with Nicholas Valentino, Ali Valenzuela and Matt Baretto.
- “Affluent politics and the rise of Trump,” with Tali Mendelberg and Sean Kates.
- “The Boundaries of Black Voting,” with Jamal R Johnson and Brandon McGhee.
- “Election Effects, Perceptions of Immigration Context and Self-Reported General and Mental Health among Latinos and Whites in the United States,” with Ali Valenzuela and Krista Perriera.
Book Project:
- Good Trouble: How Protests Influence Media and Politics.
Google Scholar
- My Google Scholar page.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton. I received a PhD in African American Studies, an MA in Government and an MA in Statistics from Harvard University. Previously, I co-founded BlackPlanet.com and the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School. I can be reached at owasow -at- gmail -dot- com.