<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Hi all!</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I hope you all had a restful summer break.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I'm writing </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">this email</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> to introduce our lab, <b>UCR Identity Politics Lab</b>, with Jenn (merolla@ucr.edu) to you.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Our lab aims to create a supportive venue to learn about the role of identity in politics across the subfields and to share research ideas with colleagues. We have regular meetings every other Monday from </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">1PM</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> to </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">2PM</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> at the Chair's office or on Zoom, and I would like to invite you all to our lab meeting. If you are interested in identity politics, such as gender, race/ethnicity, political parties, sexual orientation, nationality, etc, please feel free to join our lab. We don't specify any subfields as research areas, and our current lab members are from diverse academic/personal backgrounds, hoping to make a safe place for everyone. I also study racial and ethnic politics and immigration in the U.S. as an international student. So, please don't hesitate to </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">shoot me an email</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> if you have any concerns or questions regarding our lab! </span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">We have multiple projects in progress now, and one of our goals is to facilitate collaborations among lab members, including undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members. So, I believe our lab can provide a wonderful place if you are looking for opportunities for research participation, especially junior graduate students (such as first-year or second-year grad students).</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">As a lab manager for this fall quarter, I'm happy to answer any questions about our lab and share more details with you. </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Feel free to </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">shoot me an email to</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> me (mjoo009@ucr.edu) if you want to sign up for our lab's listserv or join our lab. </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Below is our lab meeting schedule for this fall quarter. During our first lab meeting, we will have a short introduction time and discuss REPS Lab proposals together.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">From </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">1PM</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">-</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">2PM</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> @ Chair's Office or Zoom (</span><a target="_blank" href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4145406241" class="editor-rtfLink" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(74, 110, 224);"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/4145406241</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">)</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">9/30</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">10/7: Online from 1:30 - 2: 30 </span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">10/28</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">11/11: No meeting, Veteran's Day</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">11/25</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">12/9</span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"></p><p style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: none; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Please email me (mjoo009@ucr.edu) if you have any questions about our lab, and I hope to see you all in our first lab meeting on September 30th!</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Minhye</div><div><br></div><div>
<div>Minhye Joo (She/Her)</div><div>Ph.D. Candidate</div><div>Department of Political Science,</div><div>University of California, Riverside.</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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