University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Student, Psychology

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I am primarily interested in issues of identity negotiation and dynamic social identity processes at the intersection of race, ethnicity, religion, and nationality. In particular, I investigate the effects of certain socio-political events (i.e., the post-Soviet immigration of Russian Jews to the United States, the Iraq War, the Beijing Olympic Games, the election of President Obama, and the US Economic Crisis of 2008, consequent recession, and recovery responses) on constructs such as personal and collective self-esteem, group identity, emotion, patriotism/nationalism, perceptions of other nations/cultures, and intentions to donate money to particular causes and purchase certain products. More broadly, my research interests fall under the purview of culture, identity, intergroup relations, and globalization.

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