Stephen Maynard Caliendo, associate professor of political science, and Charlton McIlwain of New York University were awarded a grant of approximately $21,000 from Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) and funded by National Science Foundation for their project, “The Effects of Racial and Racist Appeals on White Voters.” Their study is designed to ascertain how anti-black racial appeals and black candidate appeals to racial authenticity affect white potential voters’ perception of both black and white candidates. Results from the study are part of Caliendo’s and McIlwain’s forthcoming 2010 book titled Race appeal: The prevalence, purposes, and political implications of racial discourse in U.S. electoral politics. Visit RaceProject.org for more information.

Daily Herald: “Why did Carol Stream tax hike succeed while others failed?” features comments from Stephen Maynard Caliendo, associate professor of political science.

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Stephen Maynard Caliendo, associate professor of political science, and Charlton McIlwain, co-directors of The Project on Race in Political Communication (RaceProject.org), presented “Talking about Race in the Obama Era” at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY, on Nov. 9. The multimedia presentation focused on how to recognize and understand the ways that latent fears and resentments can be manifested and perpetuated by language and images. More

Stephen Maynard Caliendo, associate professor of political science, presented “Peeking Over Your Shoulder: The Importance of Psychology to The Project on Race in Political Communication” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Psychology’s Clinical/Community Psychology brownbag series on Oct. 2.

Next time you’re in the lobby of Oesterle Library, check out these three exhibits on display during fall term:
•    Community Publications features recent scholarly publications by faculty members Stephen Maynard Caliendo, David Fisher, Gerald Gems and Wendy Koenig.
•    Theme Exhibit is titled “The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Guarantees Intellectual Freedom: Celebrating Constitution Day September 17 and Banned Books Week September 26 to October 3.”
•    Bulletin Board is titled “Coming to America: America’s Immigrant Populations” and builds on the theme of the 2009 Summer Reading selection, Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America’s Illegal Migrants by Ted Conover.