{"id":3911,"date":"2018-11-05T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2018-12-05T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T20:41:11","slug":"essig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/fellows\/essig\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Essig &#8217;19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Majors<\/strong><br \/>\nPolitical Science and English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fellowship Location<\/strong><br \/>\nURI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Project<\/strong><br \/>\nJoseph studied factors that can explain people\u2019s behavior toward affordable housing policies and ballot questions. He wrote a research paper using data from a national survey and an exit poll from Rhode Island\u2019s 2016 election seeking to fill a gap in existing literature on this topic. He is using the paper as his writing sample for Ph.D. applications, and he has plans to present it at the 49th Urban Affairs Association Conference in Los Angeles in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty Mentor<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Associate Professor in Political Science and Director of the Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy mentor has been a great help to me, not only in giving me this great opportunity to get an idea of real political science research before grad school, but also in guiding my questions and teaching me how to use different techniques, while still allowing me independence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Double Major, Political Science and English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Studied factors that can explain people\u2019s behavior toward affordable housing policies and ballot questions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}