Rhoanne Esteban is an ABD Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For the past seven years, she has worked at Travelers, a Fortune 100 property and casualty insurance company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut. She currently serves as a decision scientist in Personal Insurance Data and Analytics, where she leads projects focused on underwriting operations. Her previous roles at Travelers include working as a data engineer on the Personal Insurance Research and Development model support team and serving as an enterprise senior consultant. Before joining Travelers, she worked at Wesleyan University as a data analyst. This past summer, Rhoanne served as both an instructor and teaching assistant for the inaugural partnership between Norfolk State University and the University of Michigan’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which provides a summer statistics boot camp for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). She lives in Middletown, Connecticut, with her husband, Pavel Oleinikov, and their dog, Pasha.
Abstract: This research investigates how party identification, race, and
immigration generation, individually and in interaction, structure Americans’ willingness
to escalate U.S. involvement in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using the
2022 Cooperative Election Study (CES), I apply intersectional, measurement‑aware
approach to clarify when, and for whom, foreign policy cues stick, and where lived
histories and diasporic ties shift the calculus.
When: Thursday, Dec 4th
Where: Ellison Hall, Lane Room (3824)
Time: 12:30-2:00pm