Laura Brisbane
Pronouns She / Her / Hers
Email lbrisban@usc.edu
Biography
Why is inequality so pronounced in the United States? My dissertation offers one in-road to this multifaceted question by unpacking the psychology of scarcity in American political life. I chose to focus on the politics of scarcity in my doctoral studies, in part, due to my undergraduate focus on the study of human rights, which I pursued as an entry point for envisioning a world where everyone’s needs are met. Prior to college, I wrote my first research paper as a high school student on the Eugenics movement in...
Education
- BA Univ Southern California, 5/2016
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Research Keywords
political culture, law, and public policy; political psychology; political communication; ideology and public opinion; politics of scarcity; race, gender, and economic inequality