Joey Dickinson is a second-year Ph.D. student in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Their research centers around immigration, identity, and intergroup relations, especially as it relates to public opinion and political participation. Currently, their major projects focus on how native-born Americans form attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy and how native-born populations respond to demographic shifts in their communities. Joey primarily utilizes quantitative methods and is especially interested in social networks and survey experiments.

 

Joey completed their undergraduate work as a Johnson Scholar at Washington and Lee University, focusing on economics, data science, and poverty and human capability studies. They then lived in Vienna, working as a teaching assistant through Fulbright and studying demography, before beginning the doctoral program at WashU.