Hannah Walker
@hlw.bsky.social
mobilizedbyinjustice.com
Political Scientist UT Austin
Political Scientist UT Austin
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Hannah Walker
@hlw.bsky.social
· Oct 6
Registering Returning Citizens Via Social Ties — ExpandingEngagement
expandingengagement.org
📢 WORKING PAPER ALERT 📢
"Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig
expandingengagement.org/projects/reg... 1/9
"Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig
expandingengagement.org/projects/reg... 1/9
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That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
Check out this new brief w/ @sentencingproject.bsky.social on how to get people w/ convictions who can vote out to the polls! W/ @blibal.bsky.social @nicoledporter.bsky.social #RobStewart
Summarizes existing and emerging research that partners w/ community orgs already doing the work!
Summarizes existing and emerging research that partners w/ community orgs already doing the work!
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Check out this new brief w/ @sentencingproject.bsky.social on how to get people w/ convictions who can vote out to the polls! W/ @blibal.bsky.social @nicoledporter.bsky.social #RobStewart
Summarizes existing and emerging research that partners w/ community orgs already doing the work!
Summarizes existing and emerging research that partners w/ community orgs already doing the work!
Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Another great presentation from UT grad @averrilli.bsky.social on her project “Moving in and Mobilizing” about gentrifier behavior in their new neighborhoods @priec.bsky.social
She is a rising star and on the market!
She is a rising star and on the market!
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Another great presentation from UT grad @averrilli.bsky.social on her project “Moving in and Mobilizing” about gentrifier behavior in their new neighborhoods @priec.bsky.social
She is a rising star and on the market!
She is a rising star and on the market!
Go get ‘em @averrilli.bsky.social!!
Proud to have not one -- but TWO -- UT Austin PhDs on this list. Congratulations Oguzhan Alkan @oguzhan-alkan.bsky.social (advisor: @zeynsom.bsky.social; BA: @buicinmezunlar.bsky.social) and Allison Verrilli @averrilli.bsky.social (advisor: @hlw.bsky.social; BA: @notredame.bsky.social). Hook'em.
2025 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantees
The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2025. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral…
The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2025. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral…
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Go get ‘em @averrilli.bsky.social!!
📢 WORKING PAPER ALERT 📢
"Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig
expandingengagement.org/projects/reg... 1/9
"Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig
expandingengagement.org/projects/reg... 1/9
Registering Returning Citizens Via Social Ties — ExpandingEngagement
expandingengagement.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
📢 WORKING PAPER ALERT 📢
"Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig
expandingengagement.org/projects/reg... 1/9
"Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records" w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social & #TylerLudwig
expandingengagement.org/projects/reg... 1/9
Another great talk, this time from Nick Ottone @nottone.bsky.social at @priec.bsky.social on the impact of group based diversity on downstream sentencing decisions
(He’s on the market!! Look out, he’s on the way up!!)
(He’s on the market!! Look out, he’s on the way up!!)
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Another great talk, this time from Nick Ottone @nottone.bsky.social at @priec.bsky.social on the impact of group based diversity on downstream sentencing decisions
(He’s on the market!! Look out, he’s on the way up!!)
(He’s on the market!! Look out, he’s on the way up!!)
Another great presentation from UT grad @averrilli.bsky.social on her project “Moving in and Mobilizing” about gentrifier behavior in their new neighborhoods @priec.bsky.social
She is a rising star and on the market!
She is a rising star and on the market!
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Another great presentation from UT grad @averrilli.bsky.social on her project “Moving in and Mobilizing” about gentrifier behavior in their new neighborhoods @priec.bsky.social
She is a rising star and on the market!
She is a rising star and on the market!
Off to a great start at #CUBoulderPRIEC @priec.bsky.social! UT grad @mirandasullivan.bsky.social presenting her excellent work on the impact of respectability politics among Latines… she finds…
(She’s on the market! Keep your eye on this rising star 🌟#hookem)
(She’s on the market! Keep your eye on this rising star 🌟#hookem)
September 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Off to a great start at #CUBoulderPRIEC @priec.bsky.social! UT grad @mirandasullivan.bsky.social presenting her excellent work on the impact of respectability politics among Latines… she finds…
(She’s on the market! Keep your eye on this rising star 🌟#hookem)
(She’s on the market! Keep your eye on this rising star 🌟#hookem)
Good morning everybody! Time for my favorite conference on the planet #BoulderPRIEC @priec.bsky.social (aside from J&IJ obvi 😉)
September 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good morning everybody! Time for my favorite conference on the planet #BoulderPRIEC @priec.bsky.social (aside from J&IJ obvi 😉)
Texas Republicans have lost their damn minds.
August 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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I’ve not been on a school bus in years. And I’d never been on one w @melissamichelson.bsky.social & @hlw.bsky.social until tonight! Thank you @sentencingproject.bsky.social for an evening of fellowship & clips of the film “And Water Brings Tomorrow” (ashleyhunt.info/andwaterbrin...)
July 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I’ve not been on a school bus in years. And I’d never been on one w @melissamichelson.bsky.social & @hlw.bsky.social until tonight! Thank you @sentencingproject.bsky.social for an evening of fellowship & clips of the film “And Water Brings Tomorrow” (ashleyhunt.info/andwaterbrin...)
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Favorite quote from the morning plenary: “Collective resistance is political kryptonite” #CivicPower2025 @hlw.bsky.social @sentencingproject.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Favorite quote from the morning plenary: “Collective resistance is political kryptonite” #CivicPower2025 @hlw.bsky.social @sentencingproject.bsky.social
And now we have a tag for our excellent coauthor @SamRothEA!! Great working with you, Sam!
Super excited this is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @melissamichelson.bsky.social #SamRoth & @dosocialjustice.bsky.social
"Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Getting Out the (Newly-Enfranchised) Vote: Encouraging Voter Registration After Rights Restoration - Political Behavior
Academic research describes low rates of political participation among people with criminal convictions, but offers few ideas about how to reach these low-propensity voters. After New Jersey expanded ...
link.springer.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
And now we have a tag for our excellent coauthor @SamRothEA!! Great working with you, Sam!
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Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes
www.cambridge.org
June 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Contributing to the  lit on where to place moderators in an experiment (shoutouts 🧵), @tabithabonilla.bsky.social, Genni and I consider whether items measuring prejudice are subject to unique considerations. Does asking these questions pre-treatment affect the experiment? @psrm.bsky.social
Super excited this is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @melissamichelson.bsky.social #SamRoth & @dosocialjustice.bsky.social
"Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Getting Out the (Newly-Enfranchised) Vote: Encouraging Voter Registration After Rights Restoration - Political Behavior
Academic research describes low rates of political participation among people with criminal convictions, but offers few ideas about how to reach these low-propensity voters. After New Jersey expanded ...
link.springer.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Super excited this is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social w/ @arielrwhite.bsky.social @melissamichelson.bsky.social #SamRoth & @dosocialjustice.bsky.social
"Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Getting out the (newly enfranchised) vote: Encouraging voter registration after rights restoration"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Hannah Walker
Partnering with @dosocialjustice.bsky.social, we used a multi-method approach to find a promising means of registering justice-impacted citizens to vote @arielrwhite.bsky.social @hlw.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @polbehavior.bsky.social
Getting Out the (Newly-Enfranchised) Vote: Encouraging Voter Registration After Rights Restoration - Political Behavior
Academic research describes low rates of political participation among people with criminal convictions, but offers few ideas about how to reach these low-propensity voters. After New Jersey expanded ...
link.springer.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Partnering with @dosocialjustice.bsky.social, we used a multi-method approach to find a promising means of registering justice-impacted citizens to vote @arielrwhite.bsky.social @hlw.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @polbehavior.bsky.social
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ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*
June 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*
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Looking forward to presenting our work on the political behavior of incarcerated people tomorrow at CUNY! This is one of the more exciting papers I've worked on during grad school. We're also presenting findings at ASA in Chicago later this summer.
June 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Looking forward to presenting our work on the political behavior of incarcerated people tomorrow at CUNY! This is one of the more exciting papers I've worked on during grad school. We're also presenting findings at ASA in Chicago later this summer.
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It's also very cool that @hlw.bsky.social has the presentation slot right after us. Workshop attendees are going to get a whole afternoon full of politics-of-criminalization research :)
June 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It's also very cool that @hlw.bsky.social has the presentation slot right after us. Workshop attendees are going to get a whole afternoon full of politics-of-criminalization research :)
Check out our newest in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! Project led by our outstanding grad student Allison Verrilli - she’s on the market and she’s a star ⭐️ #UTexas #HookEm
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Policing Socio-Geographic #Boundaries & #Inequality
By Allison Verrilli, @mfroman.bsky.social, @hlw.bsky.social, Derek Epp, @dramyhliu.bsky.social & Mike Findley
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Policing Socio-Geographic #Boundaries & #Inequality
By Allison Verrilli, @mfroman.bsky.social, @hlw.bsky.social, Derek Epp, @dramyhliu.bsky.social & Mike Findley
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
June 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Check out our newest in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! Project led by our outstanding grad student Allison Verrilli - she’s on the market and she’s a star ⭐️ #UTexas #HookEm