November 26, 2024 (Montreal, Canada)

My three-month fellowship at the Immigration Research Initiative (IRI) has come to an end. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Montreal, engaging with scholars on immigration at IRI and the political science department at Concordia University. I am deeply grateful to my fellowship advisor, Professor Antoine Bilodeau, for his invaluable feedback, Professor Mireille Paquet for organizing the Immigration Reading Group, and Colin Scott for his insightful guidance and support.

More information about the IRI visiting doctoral fellowship can be found here. 

October 30, 2024 (Montreal, Canada)

I had the opportunity to present my dissertation ideas at McGill Political Behavior Workshop, getting comments from faculties and graduate students of the Department of Political Science at McGill University. I would like to thank Professor Colin Scott (Concordia University) for setting up my presentation and Professor Dietlind Stolle (McGill University) for organizing this Workshop.

October 23, 2024 (Montreal, Canada)

I presented my project "Included but Not Integrated? The Role of Interpersonal Contact with Natives in Political Integration of Immigrants" at Immigration Research Initiative (IRI) Seminar at Concordia University. This was part of my fellowship project. 

More information about the seminar can be found here. 

September 5 - 8, 2024 (Philadelphia, USA)

At the 2024 APSA annual meeting, I presented my co-authored paper with Dr. Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell from the University of North Texas, USA, titled "Reactivity of Voters With an Immigration Background to Discourses of Immigration Policies" under the session "The Political Preferences of Immigrants and Foreigners". We really appreciate the constructive feedbacck by our discussant António Valentim.

More information about the panel can be found here. 

July 8-10, 2024 (Lisbon, Portugal)

At the International European Social Survey (ESS) conference, I presented my co-authored paper with Dr. Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell from the University of North Texas, USA, titled "Reactivity of Voters With an Immigration Background to Discourses of Immigration Policies" under the session "Studying Immigrants Using the ESS: Methodological Challenges, Empirical Consequences."

More information about the conference and its agenda can be found here. 

November 16, 2023 (Dalton, USA)

I participated the Politics of Race, Immigration & Ethnicity Consortium Conference (PRIEC) that took place at University of North Texas. I presented my work "Well Integrated Immigrants Without a Sense of Belonging? Revisiting Integration Paradox or Successful Integration in Europe". PRIEC is a supportive  and awesome community that provides great opportunities for constructive feedback from scholars studying race, immigration, and ethnicity. 

More information about the conference can be found here. 

July 3-12, 2023 (Bremen, Germany)

I participated in The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences-Computational Social Science (BIGSSS-CSS Summer) School on Democratic Debate. I was also part of the project team titled 'Ethnic and Sexual Minority Representation in Parliamentary Speeches: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Germany from 1945 to the Present'.  The Summer School was funded by a grant from the VolkswagenStiftung and my travel to Bremen was funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship. 

More information about the summer school can be found here.

May 4-6, 2023 (Pittsburgh, USA)

At the 2023 European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Conference, I presented my co-authored paper with Ethan Vander Wilden from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, titled "Sharing Discourse: Transnational Party Communication on Twitter in Europe," as part of the session "6F Party Positioning and Communication in the New Europe." We greatly appreciated the insightful feedback from our discussants, William Daniel and Bjørn Høyland.

More information about the conference can be found here. 

September 9, 2022 (Saint Louis, USA)

As part of the exchange program between the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis, this year's UIUC team (Ikrom Tuhtasunov, Lucie Lu, and I) led by Professor Matt Winters traveled to St. Louis to present our work at the department. We were truly grateful for the warm welcome and hospitality extended to us by the faculty and graduate students at WashU. The trip was a memorable one, and I especially want to thank Matt for driving us there and back, helping us prepare for the presentation, and also taking the time to show us around St. Louis. It was such a fun trip!

April 29, 2022 (Illinois, USA)

In 2022, I was awarded the Rita and Leonard Ogren Prizes for Academic Achievement from the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The Rita and Leonard Ogren Prizes recognize the best academic performance by PhD student(s).

More information about the award recipients can be found here. 

April 11, 2022 (Chicago, USA)

This was my first MPSA and I presented my first-year paper "Well-Integrated Immigrants Without a Sense of Belonging?" I couldn't complete the project without the endless support of my two first-year advisors Professor Avital Livny and Professor Cara Wong. 

More information about the working group and its agenda can be found here.