{"id":12694,"date":"2023-10-10T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/?page_id=12694"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:41:05","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/ri-survey-initiative-24\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"RI Survey Initiative Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet the Team<\/h1>\n
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The Rhode Island Survey Initiative is led by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students from multiple departments at URI. The team identifies key issues, formulates survey questions, and analyzes results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ying Xiong<\/h2>\n

Assistant Professor<\/strong>
\nPublic Relations<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Prior to joining URI, Ying worked in Adam Brown Social Media Command Center at the University of Tennessee offering training opportunities to students, faculty, and staff. She also worked in the Media Effect Lab at the University of Oklahoma for eye tracking, Galvanic Skin Response research, and health communication studies.<\/p>\n

Ying has outstanding teaching performance. She has taught Public Relations Research Methods, Public Relations Campaigns, and Introduction to Event Management.<\/p>\nread more<\/a>\n

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\"\"Emily Lynch<\/h2>\n

Associate Professor<\/strong>
\nPolitical Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Lynch joined the Political Science Department at URI in Fall 2019. Her teaching and research interests include political psychology, public opinion, Rhode Island politics, Congress, and political communication. She has publications in Journal of Communication<\/em> and Political Behavior<\/em>. She served as an American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in 2013-2014 and worked on education policy for the Senator.<\/p>\n

Professor Lynch teaches undergraduate courses on American Politics, Rhode Island Politics, Public Opinion, and Gender and Politics. <\/p>\nread more<\/a>\n

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Julie C. Keller<\/h2>\n

Director, Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy (SSIREP)
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\nSociology <\/strong><\/p>\n

Julie C. Keller is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Rhode Island. She earned her doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the faculty at URI, Keller was a visiting assistant professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Oberlin College in Ohio.<\/p>\n

Keller\u2019s research and teaching interests include transnational migration from Latin America, rural studies, new immigrant destinations, gender and sexuality. A major line of research examines the working conditions of dairy workers in the U.S. Her new book, Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America\u2019s Dairyland,<\/i> is now available at Rutgers University Press<\/a>. Listen to Dr. Keller discussing her book on Wisconsin Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\nread more<\/a>\n

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RI Survey Initiative<\/h2>

Researchers from URI\u2019s Harrington School of Communication and Media; Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy; and Department of Political Science devise the surveys, which are administered by YouGov, an international internet-based market research and data analytics firm.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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The Rhode Island Survey Initiative is a collaboration between the Harrington School of Communication and Media<\/a>; Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy<\/a>; Department of Political Science<\/a>; and College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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URI Harrington School Research<\/h2>

Faculty and students at the Harrington School of Communication and Media are advancing the understanding of a rapidly evolving communications ecosystem through collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and scholarship.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy<\/h2>

The Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy (SSIREP) at URI is a campus-wide consortium that brings together campus units representing a wide range of disciplines.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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URI Department of Political Science<\/h2>

Our faculty are winners of prestigious teaching awards and leading researchers in areas ranging from post-Cold War Russian relations and technology\u2019s impact on political campaigns to the role of emotions in decision making. <\/p><\/div><\/div>

Explore<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the Team The Rhode Island Survey Initiative is led by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students from multiple departments at URI. The team identifies key issues, formulates survey questions, and analyzes results.     Ying Xiong Assistant Professor Public Relations Prior to joining URI, Ying worked in Adam Brown Social Media Command Center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3771,"featured_media":0,"parent":12664,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-12694","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15004,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12694\/revisions\/15004"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}