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College VoicesAre you my mentor?In this episode of College Voices, Anusha and Glynn sit down with several members of the Penn community to talk about mentorship. Hear from Amanda St. Paul, Associate Director of First Exposure to Research in Biological Sciences (FERBS); Kaitlin Irvine, Assistant Director of Advising Services & Academic Support, and Michele Margolis Associate Professor of Political Science to hear their perspectives on the importance of mentorship, and advice on what to look for in a mentor and where to search for one. In addition to these interviews, also hear from several students in the College about how they found their mentors...
2025-02-2817 min
What Happens Next in 6 MinutesPartisanship and Religion and the Importance of Innovation in PoliticsOur first speaker will be Michele Margolis who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Michele has a new book entitled From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity.Michele believes that most political scientists misunderstand the role of religion and partisanship. The commonly held view is that religious people tend to vote Republican. Michele believes that partisanship is the driving force and that Republicans want to be religious to fit in with their political ideology and correspondingly Democrats become more secular.Our second sp...
2022-07-2252 min
Until We Get CanceledObama Gave Us A Great Couple of Weeks for Ethereal BisexualsHillary Zedlitz is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan who studies political science and religion and politics. Hillary is also a member of the Graduate Employees’ Organization, a grad student union, who went on strike during the pandemic to protest the university reopening plans and policing policies.On a micro level, we get into why the strike happened and how the university handled things (poorly) after the fact. And on a macro level, we explore how labor is exploited in academia, why more graduate students should belong to a union, and how unions can pro...
2020-12-1357 min
Librarians by the SeaEpisode 5: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek with Director Alyce DeveauOn today's episode, Julie interviews the Library Director, Alyce Deveau about a recent book she read, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. They get into a discussion on the importance of access to information, particularly during quarantine.
2020-04-2121 min
Why We ArgueReligious and Political Identities with Michele F. Margolis Michele F. Margolis is assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. She has recently published a book titled From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity.The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2019-02-1932 min
Perception GapsEpisode 7: The Generosity GameEverything feels like a competition these days. Who is more generous: conservatives or liberals? There’s no easy answer, but data does show that both parties have become less generous in recent years. Join host Samantha Laine Perfas, along with guests assistant professor Michele Margolis, researcher Nathan Dietz, “Happy Money” co-author Michael Norton, and mother-of-the-host Dana Laine.
2018-11-2600 min
The Science of PoliticsHow Americans' Politics Drives Their Religious ViewsRepublicans are now a lot more religious than Democrats, but they may not mean our religious views drive our politics. Instead, people may be choosing their religious or secular affiliations, communities, and beliefs on the basis of their partisanship. Michele Margolis finds that young adults tend to move away from religion, but only Republicans and Black Democrats come back when they start a family—leading to a big over-time decline in religion among White Democrats. But what is replacing religion for Democrats? David Campbell finds that an aversion to the religious right makes Democrats adopt secular identities and principles. Both sa...
2018-11-0845 min
The University of Chicago Press PodcastMichele Margolis, “From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity” (U Chicago Press, 2018)On this American Political Science Association special podcast, we welcome a special guest host – and former guest of the podcast – Andy Lewis. In addition to his recent book, The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics, Andy is a contributor to the Religion in Public blog and is associate professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati.Andy and I had the real pleasure to talk with Michele Margolis about her new book From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Margolis is assistant professor of political scie...
2018-08-2823 min
Give and TakeEpisode 118: From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity, with Michele F. MargolisMy guest is Michele Margolis. Her new book From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity challenges the conventional wisdom that suggests that religious differences between Republicans and Democrats have produced this gap, with voters sorting themselves into the party that best represents their religious views.
Margolis offers a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom, arguing that the relationship between religion and politics is far from a one-way street that starts in the church and ends at the ballot box. Margolis contends that political identity has a profound effect on social...
2018-08-1453 min
New Persuasive WordsWhen Politics Shapes ReligionInspired by a recent piece in the New York Times, we discuss new research that shows how political affiliations and commitments are shaping religious one, not the other way around.
You can find the New York Times piece, written by Michele Margolis, here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/opinion/religion-republican-democrat.html.
2018-07-1321 min