Project Title: All Assembled: Protest, Riot, and the Politics of Interpretation
Stacey Liou, University of Florida
Stacey Liou is Assistant Professor of political science at University of Florida. She is a contemporary political theorist whose research focuses on popular politics and democratic theory, with additional interests in visual media, rhetoric, and the politics of language. Her current book project examines the interpretive politics of protest by analyzing public discourses about the 1992 LA Riots / Uprising and the city’s 1994 march against California’s anti-immigrant measure Proposition 187. Stacey’s work has been published in Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, and Space & Polity.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants provide support for the advancement of scholars from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and for research that examines political science phenomena affecting historically underserved communities and underrepresented groups and communities. In July 2023, APSA awarded six projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of $12,000. In December 2023, APSA awarded three additional projects.
Read more about the funded projects here.