jmehrava@uwo.ca

Welcome to my research.

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario and a project manager at the Body Politics Lab | I am also a multi-media visual artist.

NOTES ON MY WORK.

While my dissertational work focuses on the prospects and limits of expanded ingroup boundaries and identity construction, my interdisciplinary work within the Body Politics Lab alongside other collaborators abroad focuses on how people and their physical bodies relate to the political world and one another.

When drawing lines between “us” and “them” it is important to consider the potential for identity boundaries to be reconstructed for more inclusive conceptions of ingroup membership.

BREAKING BOUNDARIES AND CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES: Exploring the Limits and Prospects of Broader Social Group Identities

Dissertation in Progress at the University of Western Ontario | Department of Political Science

Focusing on human beings in a political world, it is important to consider how we engage with and respond to various stimuli in the pursuit of understanding and conducting human relations

COLLABORATION: THE BODY POLITICS LAB

Project Director at the Body Politics Lab | PI Amanda Friesen, PhD

PUBLISHED & ACCEPTED PAPERS

Mehravar, Jesse, Ruben Andre Teixeira Azevedo, Amanda Friesen, and Benjamin Ruisch. “Are Ideological Differences a Consequence of Experimental Context? Testing Whether Left Right Differences in Threat Sensitivity are Caused by Perceptions of Researcher Liberalism.” (Registered Report accepted in principle at Politics and the Life Sciences).

Mehravar, Jesse, Christopher Alcantara, and Jason Roy. 2024. "Does Simulating Financial Equality Reduce the Political Donations Gender Gap?" Political Studies Review 22 (3): 657-666.