Vesla Weaver

vmw4r@virginia.edu Phone: 434 924-4660

Vesla Mae Weaver, received her doctorate from Harvard University in the joint programs of Government and Social Policy. Her program of scholarship ultimately aims to center race in political science debates.
Weaver's research covers a range of areas including social policy, electoral politics, political psychology, American political
development, and the politics of inequality. She is currently working on a book manuscript that aims to understand the political processes behind the transformation in American crime policy, uncovering a connection between the movement for civil rights and the development of punitive criminal justice. Weaver is also working on a collaborative book project on skin color, multiracialism, and immigration and their implications for racial politics (with Professors Jennifer Hochschild and Traci Burch). She is the principle investigator on an experiment through the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences which explores how white voters react to black and Latino political candidates of varying skin tones. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Brookings Institution.

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