[Poscgrad] Upcoming Social Sciences Lab Brown Bag Seminar: Feb 26, 11-12 @INTS1113

[Jieun Lee]

Final reminder about the seminar this Thursday by Professor Mirya Holman.
>From 11-12 in INTS 1113. You can register for the event here
<https://forms.gle/KQrTxp3aivz3iwLL7>.

Our lab director, Professor Jennifer Merolla, encourages all POSC
graduate students to attend the talk, as Dr. Holman is a highly
accomplished scholar and it will be a valuable networking opportunity!

Jieun


On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM Jieun Lee <jlee1433 at ucr.edu> wrote:

> This is a reminder about the upcoming seminar on *February 26* from 11am
> to 12pm in INTS 1113.
>
> Mirya Homan (Professor in Public Policy, University of Houston) will
> present a paper titled "*Identity Claims in Political Speech*."
> Additional details are provided below. Please register for the event here
> <https://forms.gle/KQrTxp3aivz3iwLL7> if you are interested! Lunch will
> be provided.
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM Jieun Lee <jlee1433 at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear POSC grad students,
>>
>> The Social Sciences Laboratory's next Brown Bag Seminar will take place
>> on *February 26* from 11am to 12pm in INTS 1113.
>>
>> Mirya Homan (Professor in Public Policy, University of Houston) will
>> present a paper titled "*Identity Claims in Political Speech*."
>> Additional details are provided below. Please register for the event here
>> <https://forms.gle/KQrTxp3aivz3iwLL7> if you are interested! Lunch will
>> be provided.
>>
>> We are also planning to hold three to four talks by faculty across social
>> science disciplines during the Spring quarter. Please stay tuned for
>> more information!
>>
>> *Title*: Identity Claims in Political Speech
>> *Abstract*:
>> Social identities are central to political discussions and decisions. But
>> how do people deploy identities that are not visibly apparent? We argue
>> that people use identity claims to establish themselves as members of
>> socially desirable and situationally relevant groups and to draw attention
>> to their political communications. We evaluate the use of these *identity
>> claims* across five datasets: elite communications in newsletters,
>> biographies, and on social media and in public comment periods in 200,000+
>> school board and city council meetings to show that people use
>> situationally relevant and socially deserving identities. We then test our
>> argument causally through a unique survey experiment where participants
>> rate and rank public comments. Finally, we use public comments in a single
>> school board to evaluate changes in vocal pitch to establish that identity
>> claims preface heightened emotions.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jieun Lee
>> *Ph.D. Candidate*, Department of Political Science,
>> *Lab Manager, *Social Sciences Laboratory,
>> University of California, Riverside
>>
>
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