Research

Working Papers

“Registering Returning Citizens to Vote: Field Experiments in North Carolina.” (with Jennifer Doleac, Eric Foster-Moore, Laurel Eckhouse, Allison Harris and Ariel White) Forthcoming at the Journal of Politics, pending replication. 

“Bridges to the Ballot: How Loved Ones Can Mobilize Voters with Criminal Records.” (with Ariel White, Tyler Ludwig and Allison Harris)

The Politics of the American Criminal Justice System

White, Ariel, Walker, Hannah L., Michelson, Melissa and Roth, Sam. 2025. “Getting Out the (Newly Enfranchised) Vote: Encouraging Voter Registration After Rights Restoration.” Political Behavior, online first. 

Verrilli, Allison, Roman, Marcel, Walker, Hannah L., Epp, Derek, Liu, Amy, and Findley, Mike. 2025. “Policing Socio-Geographic Boundaries and Inequality.” Perspectives on Politics, online first. 

Roman, Marcel, Fredriksson, Klara, Cassella, Chris, Epp, Derek and Hannah, Walker L. 2025. “The George Floyd Effect: How Protests and Public Scrutiny Changed Police Behavior.” Perspectives on Politics, online first. 

Dias, Megan, Epp, Derek, Roman, Marcel and Walker, Hannah L. 2024. “Consent searches: Evaluating the usefulness of a common and highly discretionary police practice.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 21(1), 35-91.

Roman, Marcel, Walker, Hannah L., and Barreto, Matt. 2022. “How Social Ties with Undocumented Immigrants Motivate Latinx Political Participation.” Political Research Quarterly, 75(3), 661-675. Replication data.

Harris, Allison, Walker, Hannah L., and Eckhouse, Laurel. 2020. “No Justice, No Peace: Political Science Perspectives on the American Carceral State. The Journal of Racial and Ethnic Politics, 5: 427– 449. Introduction to special issue on the politics of criminal justice.

Walker, Hannah L., Roman Marcel, and Barreto Matt. 2020. “The Ripple Effect: The Political Consequences of Proximal Contact with Immigration Enforcement.” The Journal of Racial and Ethnic Politics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2020.9. Online first.

Walker, Hannah L., Roman, Marcel and Barreto, Matt. 2020. “The Direct and Indirect Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Latino Political Engagement.” UCLA Law Review. 67.

Walker, Hannah L.  2020. “Targeted: The Mobilizing Effect of Perceptions of Unfair Policing Practices.” The Journal of Politics, 82(1): 119-134. 

Owens, Michael Leo and Walker, Hannah L. 2018. “Civic Voluntarism of ‘Custodial Citizens’: Involuntary Criminal justice Contact, Associational Life and Political Participation.” Perspectives on Politics, doi: 10.1017/S15357592718002074. FirstView. 

Walker, Hannah L. and Garcia-Casteñon, Marcela. 2017. “For love and justice: The mobilizing impact of race, gender and criminal justice contact.” Politics and Gender, online first, September 27.

Walker, Hannah L. 2014. “Extending the Effects of the Carceral State: Proximal Contact, Political Participation and Race.” Political Research Quarterly, 67(4): 809-822.

Walker, Hannah L., Thorpe, Rebecca, Christensen, Emily and Anderson, JP. 2016. “The Hidden Subsidies of Rural Prisons: Race, Space and Cumulative Disadvantage.” Punishment and Society, online first, Sage. August 8, 2016.

Walker, H. L. 2017. Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World Peter K. Enns. New York: Cambridge University Press (2016) 192pp.£ 24.99 pb ISBN 978‐1‐107‐13288‐7, 178‐1‐316‐50061‐3. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 56(2), 269-271.

Race, Ethnicity and Identity Politics

Watts-Smith, Candis, Walker, Hannah L. and Lopez-Bunyasi, Tehama. 2025. “Feeling Good About the Ties that Bind: Neighborhood Quality and Affective Linked Fate among Black Americans.” Politics, Groups and Identities, online first. 

Garcia-Rios, Sergio, Lajevardi, Nazita, Oskooii, Kassra, and Walker, Hannah L. 2022. “The Participatory Implications of Racialized Policy Feedbacks.” Perspectives on Politics, 21(3), 932-950.

Lajevardi, Nazita, Oskooii, Kassra, and Walker, Hannah L. 2022. “Hate, Amplified?Unmediated Digital News Consumption and Support for Anti-Muslim American Policy Proposals.” Journal of Public Policy, 42(4), 656-683.

Walker, Hannah L., McCabe, Katherine, and Matos, Yalidy. 2021. “Proximal contact with Latino immigrants and immigration attitudes.” Politics, Groups and Identities. doi: 10.1080/21565503.2021.1882315

McCabe, Katherine, Matos, Yalidy and Walker, Hannah L. 2020. “Priming legality: Perceptions of Latino and undocumented Latino immigrants.” American Politics Research, doi: 10.1177/1532673X20959600. Online first.

Walker, Hannah L., Collingwood, Loren, and Lopez Bunyasi, Tehama. 2020. “White Response to Black Death: A Racialized Theory of White Attitudes Towards Gun Control.” Du Bois Review, doi:10.1017/S1742058X20000156. Online first.

Lajevardi, Nazita, Oskooii, Kassra, and Walker, Hannah L. and Westfall, Aubrey. 2020. “The Paradox Between Integration and Perceived Discrimination Among American Muslims.” Political Psychology, 41(3): 587-606.

Garcia-Castenon, Huckle, Kiku, Walker, Hannah and Chong, Chinbo. 2019. “Democracies Deficit: The Role of Institutional Contact in Shaping non-White Political Behavior.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Politics, https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2018.24, FirstView.  

Dana, Karam, Lajevardi, Nazita, Oskooii, Kassra and Walker, Hannah. 2018. “Veiled Politics: Experiences with Discrimination Among Muslim Americans.” Religion and Politics, doi: 10.1017/S1755048318000287, FirstView. 

Gabriel R., Vargas, Eduard D., Walker, Hannah L., and Ybarra, Vickie D. 2015. “Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Relationship Between Latino/a’s Personal Connections to Immigrants and Issue Salience and Presidential Approval.” Politics, Groups and Identities, 3(3).Sanchez et al. PGI

Walker, Hannah L. and Bennett, Dylan. 2015. “The Wages of Wisconsin’s Whiteness: Black Milwaukee, White Waukesha, and the Destruction of Public Sector Labor Unions.” New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 37(2): 181-203.

Dana, Karam and Walker, Hannah L. 2015. “Invisible Disasters: The Effects of Israeli Occupation on Palestinian Gender Roles.” Contemporary Arab Affairs, 8(4): 488-504.

Institutional Barriers to Voting

Barreto, Matt, Sanchez, Gabriel, and Walker, Hannah L. 2022. “Battling the Hydra: Voter ID Laws and Native Americans in North Dakota.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Politics, 7(1), 119-140.

Barreto, Matt, Nuno, Stephen, Sanchez, Gabe and Walker, Hannah. 2018. “The Racial Implications of Voter ID Laws in America.” American Politics Research, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X18810012.

Walker, Hannah L., Herron, Michael C., and Smith, Daniel A. 2018. “Early voting changes and voter turnout: North Carolina in the 2016 general election.” Political Behavior, doi: 10.1007/s11109-018-9473-5, FirstLook. 

Walker, Hannah L., Sanchez, Gabe, Nuño, Stephen, and Barreto, Matt. 2017. “Race and the Right to Vote: The Modern Barrier of Voter ID Laws.” in Todd Donovan (ed.) Election Rules and Reforms. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.