Anna MacLennan
Undergraduate Fellow, 2024-25
Government
Anna MacLennan is a recipient of a 2024 CAPS Undergraduate Summer Thesis Research Grant. Anna’s proposed thesis is entitled, “Voter Perceptions of Multiracial Asian American Political Candidates.”
Proposal synopsis: My thesis will examine the question: What factors most influence the ways American voters perceive and evaluate multiracial Asian American political candidates? I plan to use a mixed-methods approach including: (1) survey experiments with high school students at clusters of high schools in six demographically and politically different regions of the country, (2) interviews with some of those high school students, and (3) a quantitative analysis of donors to multiracial candidates campaigns.