Marcel Roman
@mfroman.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Government @ Harvard. Studies identity, race, and immigration. https://www.marcelroman.com/
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Marcel Roman
@mfroman.bsky.social
· Aug 6
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
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Important & timely working paper from East, Cox, and my colleague @caitlinpatler.bsky.social
Trump II systematically using "community arrests" (ICE arrests on the street, workplace, in the community, etc) and not targeting immigrants w/ criminal convictions
NBER link: www.nber.org/system/files...
Trump II systematically using "community arrests" (ICE arrests on the street, workplace, in the community, etc) and not targeting immigrants w/ criminal convictions
NBER link: www.nber.org/system/files...
February 9, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Important & timely working paper from East, Cox, and my colleague @caitlinpatler.bsky.social
Trump II systematically using "community arrests" (ICE arrests on the street, workplace, in the community, etc) and not targeting immigrants w/ criminal convictions
NBER link: www.nber.org/system/files...
Trump II systematically using "community arrests" (ICE arrests on the street, workplace, in the community, etc) and not targeting immigrants w/ criminal convictions
NBER link: www.nber.org/system/files...
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#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social -
“The Caucasian Persuasion”: White Voter Evaluations of Black Political Candidates by Skin Tone and Gender - https://cup.org/3ZXYgf2
- @nyadon.bsky.social
#FirstView
“The Caucasian Persuasion”: White Voter Evaluations of Black Political Candidates by Skin Tone and Gender - https://cup.org/3ZXYgf2
- @nyadon.bsky.social
#FirstView
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social -
“The Caucasian Persuasion”: White Voter Evaluations of Black Political Candidates by Skin Tone and Gender - https://cup.org/3ZXYgf2
- @nyadon.bsky.social
#FirstView
“The Caucasian Persuasion”: White Voter Evaluations of Black Political Candidates by Skin Tone and Gender - https://cup.org/3ZXYgf2
- @nyadon.bsky.social
#FirstView
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Powerful white men once equated Black people with monkeys to justify their abduction, deportation, enslavement, lynching and segregation.
The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism.
There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.
The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism.
There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Powerful white men once equated Black people with monkeys to justify their abduction, deportation, enslavement, lynching and segregation.
The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism.
There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.
The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism.
There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.
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The Green Book Project is dedicated to documenting the businesses and safe places that sustained Black travel in the Jim Crow era. Share your story and contribute to our community map! Help us preserve Black History! Spread the word! greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
#CommunityMap #EconSky
February 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Green Book Project is dedicated to documenting the businesses and safe places that sustained Black travel in the Jim Crow era. Share your story and contribute to our community map! Help us preserve Black History! Spread the word! greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
#CommunityMap #EconSky
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[1/7] New paper from me in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social tracing the rise of crime-based deportation in the 1980s. The Laken Riley Act follows a 40-year-old blueprint, but the provision that started it all? Added the last day of House debate in 1986, almost as an afterthought. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/739835
Deportation by Design: How Political Entrepreneurs Engineered Crime-Based Deportation in the United States | Polity
Abstract Starting in the 1980s, the U.S. federal government considerably expanded criminal grounds for deportation, laying the foundation for today’s enforcement regime. Yet, the policymaking dynamics...
doi.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
[1/7] New paper from me in @polityalsberuf.bsky.social tracing the rise of crime-based deportation in the 1980s. The Laken Riley Act follows a 40-year-old blueprint, but the provision that started it all? Added the last day of House debate in 1986, almost as an afterthought. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/739835
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#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -
When restrictive economic zoning leads to racial segregation - https://cup.org/4ti5BDM
"results indicate that land use regulations contribute to the maintenance of racial segregation across neighborhoods"
- @trounstine.bsky.social
#FirstView
When restrictive economic zoning leads to racial segregation - https://cup.org/4ti5BDM
"results indicate that land use regulations contribute to the maintenance of racial segregation across neighborhoods"
- @trounstine.bsky.social
#FirstView
February 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -
When restrictive economic zoning leads to racial segregation - https://cup.org/4ti5BDM
"results indicate that land use regulations contribute to the maintenance of racial segregation across neighborhoods"
- @trounstine.bsky.social
#FirstView
When restrictive economic zoning leads to racial segregation - https://cup.org/4ti5BDM
"results indicate that land use regulations contribute to the maintenance of racial segregation across neighborhoods"
- @trounstine.bsky.social
#FirstView
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This set of essays, led by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and @adambonica.bsky.social, is really important. Folks should spend time with them.
And their response to the responses reads like two scholars tired of bringing loads of evidence to a fight where some folks are just bringing vibes.
And their response to the responses reads like two scholars tired of bringing loads of evidence to a fight where some folks are just bringing vibes.
We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This set of essays, led by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and @adambonica.bsky.social, is really important. Folks should spend time with them.
And their response to the responses reads like two scholars tired of bringing loads of evidence to a fight where some folks are just bringing vibes.
And their response to the responses reads like two scholars tired of bringing loads of evidence to a fight where some folks are just bringing vibes.
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There's something to be written (and maybe someone already has) on how the democratization of statistical analysis out of the academy has coincided with the rise of stats as a rhetorical tool representing scientific certainty – exactly the opposite of what they are. See it a lot in sports, for ex.
February 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
There's something to be written (and maybe someone already has) on how the democratization of statistical analysis out of the academy has coincided with the rise of stats as a rhetorical tool representing scientific certainty – exactly the opposite of what they are. See it a lot in sports, for ex.
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I am chairing the Emerging Scholar Award committee for the APSA EPOVB section this year. Send in your submissions (self-nominations welcomed!) with a cv to me and the committee (@wzcmarsh.bsky.social and Holli Semetko) by March 1 for consideration! More info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
Section32 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (Section 32) The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research on elections,
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February 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I am chairing the Emerging Scholar Award committee for the APSA EPOVB section this year. Send in your submissions (self-nominations welcomed!) with a cv to me and the committee (@wzcmarsh.bsky.social and Holli Semetko) by March 1 for consideration! More info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
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#OpenAccess from @jeas-journal.bsky.social -
Women of Color Identity and Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Asian, Latina, and Black Women - https://cup.org/4adYMKL
- Melissa Watanabe Mata
#FirstView
Women of Color Identity and Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Asian, Latina, and Black Women - https://cup.org/4adYMKL
- Melissa Watanabe Mata
#FirstView
February 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM
#OpenAccess from @jeas-journal.bsky.social -
Women of Color Identity and Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Asian, Latina, and Black Women - https://cup.org/4adYMKL
- Melissa Watanabe Mata
#FirstView
Women of Color Identity and Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Asian, Latina, and Black Women - https://cup.org/4adYMKL
- Melissa Watanabe Mata
#FirstView
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Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 1, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
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I am a political scientist. I am also the proud chair of WashU's small but mighty women, gender, and sexuality studies department. Political scientists: it's time to stand w/ gender studies, Black studies and similar units. We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I am a political scientist. I am also the proud chair of WashU's small but mighty women, gender, and sexuality studies department. Political scientists: it's time to stand w/ gender studies, Black studies and similar units. We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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Thank you for supporting Project Implicit. With the additional $3K not included on the landing page, we’ve raised $6,763 or 13.5% of our goal in less than a month.
Please help us protect scientific integrity and expand access to research and education by sharing.
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Please help us protect scientific integrity and expand access to research and education by sharing.
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January 30, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Thank you for supporting Project Implicit. With the additional $3K not included on the landing page, we’ve raised $6,763 or 13.5% of our goal in less than a month.
Please help us protect scientific integrity and expand access to research and education by sharing.
4agc.com/landing/impl...
Please help us protect scientific integrity and expand access to research and education by sharing.
4agc.com/landing/impl...
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People keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.
The Power-Enhancing and Power-Diminishing Effects of Digital Technologies: Marginalized People and US Racial Authoritarianism
The United States continues to evade scrutiny as a place that actively represses, expels, and rules over subsets of its population. This oversight has foreclosed investigation into the empirical relat...
doi.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:20 PM
People keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.
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An experimental finding sure to shock: white evangelicals are especially attuned to slights against Christians, but significantly less likely to view same actions as discriminatory when against a religious out-group. And this double-standard is unique to white evangelicals. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
January 25, 2026 at 9:56 PM
An experimental finding sure to shock: white evangelicals are especially attuned to slights against Christians, but significantly less likely to view same actions as discriminatory when against a religious out-group. And this double-standard is unique to white evangelicals. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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Our own work also highlights the importance of heightening abolitionist ideology in the current moment: to shift people's locus of violence from individuals to state actors like ICE, and to increase activism against state violence in a tenacious manner. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
on the role of social psychologists in abolishing policing and state violence:
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Our own work also highlights the importance of heightening abolitionist ideology in the current moment: to shift people's locus of violence from individuals to state actors like ICE, and to increase activism against state violence in a tenacious manner. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New study by Molly Offer-Westort et al. tests an AI social media agent for deep canvassing on anti-transgender prejudice. Personalized NLP messaging shows positive effects, pointing to scalable—but limited—alternatives to in-person outreach.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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January 25, 2026 at 4:31 PM
New study by Molly Offer-Westort et al. tests an AI social media agent for deep canvassing on anti-transgender prejudice. Personalized NLP messaging shows positive effects, pointing to scalable—but limited—alternatives to in-person outreach.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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It’s a frustrating time for folks that spoke truth to power for years and were met with a shrug and a label of being too radical or unreasonable. The warnings were made.
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
It’s a frustrating time for folks that spoke truth to power for years and were met with a shrug and a label of being too radical or unreasonable. The warnings were made.
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It‘s impossible to watch what is happening in Minnesota and not to think of Germany in 1933. ICE is Trump‘s SA. The fact that the Democrats partially still support and fund this band of violent thugs acting as the regime’s arm of oppression is beyond reprehensible.
January 24, 2026 at 4:48 PM
It‘s impossible to watch what is happening in Minnesota and not to think of Germany in 1933. ICE is Trump‘s SA. The fact that the Democrats partially still support and fund this band of violent thugs acting as the regime’s arm of oppression is beyond reprehensible.
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Voters want a justice system that is less cruel.
In POQ, Yogev finds that progressive politicians, such as DAs, are perceived as abandoning accountability for offenses like shoplifting and drug usage, they invite a political backlash.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Yogev finds that progressive politicians, such as DAs, are perceived as abandoning accountability for offenses like shoplifting and drug usage, they invite a political backlash.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
January 23, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Voters want a justice system that is less cruel.
In POQ, Yogev finds that progressive politicians, such as DAs, are perceived as abandoning accountability for offenses like shoplifting and drug usage, they invite a political backlash.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Yogev finds that progressive politicians, such as DAs, are perceived as abandoning accountability for offenses like shoplifting and drug usage, they invite a political backlash.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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Interesting results in the new NY Times Sienna College poll. Any new support for Republicans among nonwhite voters that appeared in 2024 has evaporated. But also, there is no college/non-college educational polarization among nonwhite voters. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Interesting results in the new NY Times Sienna College poll. Any new support for Republicans among nonwhite voters that appeared in 2024 has evaporated. But also, there is no college/non-college educational polarization among nonwhite voters. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.”
With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared.
No one has been convicted.
With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared.
No one has been convicted.
#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.”
With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared.
No one has been convicted.
With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared.
No one has been convicted.