Gwyneth McClendon
Associate Professor of Politics
New York University
at time of fellowship
2021 to 2022
McClendon will draw on psychology and neuroscience research to analyze how political movements invite people and communities to reimagine political structures. Focusing on social movements in the United States and South Africa, McClendon’s project will include both analysis of digital communications and a series of online experiments. The project will demonstrate how social movements that aim to reduce inequality stimulate the public’s imagination and to what effect.