Marco Aviña is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Ph.D. Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is broadly interested in racial and ethnic politics as well as public opinion and political behavior. His research agenda involves (re)assessing contextual effects in politics, countering prejudice with persuasion, and interrogating the notion of racial solidarity. His dissertation research looks at intergroup relations in American cities amid the migrant crisis, with an emphasis on how financial hardship and urban inequality hinder the acceptance of asylum-seekers. Marco has published work on public attitudes toward economic policy, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Canadian politics.
Contact
mmendozaavina@fas.harvard.edu
My Website
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
American Politics
Academic Interests
Migration | Political Geography | Political Psychology | Public Opinion | Race & Ethnicity | Social Policy & the Welfare State | State & Local Politics | Voter Behavior
Research Methods
Experiments | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
United States | North America (excluding US)