Nasim Vaseiezadeh was selected to be the Kaplan Fellow for 2024-2025 academic year. Nasim’s research broadly engages with the contributing factors and the mechanisms through which negative sentiments toward racialized minority groups are produced and expressed, as well as their consequences for the target groups and the hosting society. Employing the Kaplan Longitudinal and Multigenerational Study (KLAMS) data, she analyzes the relationship between parental racial/skin tone reflected appraisal and assimilation levels among the Latinx population. In doing so, she relies on the similarities and differences between the responses in multiple waves of the first generation of the survey (parents) and responses to equivalent questions in the second generation (children). This project dovetails with another paper, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) in Columbus, Ohio, where she shows the relationship between attitudes toward assimilation at the individual and aggregate levels and anti-immigrant sentiments.
Congratulations, Nasim!