Honors Associate Professor Seth Goldman Named Russell Sage Visiting Scholar

Seth Goldman

Seth K. Goldman, honors associate professor in the Department of Communication and Commonwealth Honors College, who is leading a multidisciplinary team studying how people of color respond to narratives of rising diversity, has been selected by the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) as a visiting scholar to expand upon the project.

Goldman will spend the 2024-25 academic year in residence at RSF in New York City, analyzing data and writing up the results of the study exploring how people of color respond to news coverage about population projections showing that non-Hispanic whites will become a numerical minority in the coming decades. Ultimately, he will write a book drawing on media content analysis and nationally representative panel surveys of underrepresented groups conducted by the research team.

With the help of a separate RSF grant, Goldman; Tatishe Nteta, provost professor of political science; Linda Tropp, professor of psychological and brain sciences; and Professors Yuen Huo and Efren Perez from the University of California, Los Angeles, launched their research last year in what will be a three-wave panel survey and news content analysis related to census projections. The project has also received support from UMass through a Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Support Grant and Institute of Diversity Sciences Seed Grant.

Goldman is one of 17 RSF visiting scholars for the upcoming academic year. Scholars were selected based on their projects' potential to improve social and living conditions in the United States. RSF's mission is "strengthening the methods, data and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies."

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