Brittany Pryor Jones recently completed her MSc in social research at Birkbeck, University of London. Her master’s dissertation project focused on the effects of co-ethnic bias on the support of the second amendment amongst southern Americans. The research project used quantitative data analysis to evaluate the effects of implicit attitudes formed through shared ethnicity on southern American’s perspective of current gun policy. Her future research endeavors include evaluating the effects of unconscious attitudes on the development of policy in public and private sectors and exploring policies and implicit attitudes that affect underrepresented communities both in mixed ethnicity and homogeneous environments. Prior to completing her master’s program, Brittany spent a year living as a volunteer in Uganda, East Africa where she established and operated an education support program to benefit underprivileged youth in rural communities. She is currently applying for PhD programs beginning in Fall of 2024.
The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program, formerly the Minority Fellowship Program, was established in 1969 as a fellowship competition to diversify the political science profession. The DFP provides support to students applying to, or in the early stages of, a PhD program in political science. The goal of the program is to increase the number of scholars from minoritized backgrounds in the discipline and ultimately the professoriate. APSA has once again awarded a new cycle to provide support for students currently in the process of applying to political science PhD programs for Fall 2024. Please join us in congratulating the 2024-2025 class of fellows.
- Learn more about DFP at https://apsanet.org/dfp