CURI Academic Year Student Researcher 26 Valdesolo
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Job Location:
Northfield, OH - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 11 - 12
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Title: CURI Academic Year Student Researcher
Classification:Student Employee (non-exempt)
Name and Address of Employer:St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave Northfield MN 55057
If the position requires the student to work off campus provide the name and address here:
Department Name: CURI
Unit Number (5 digits): 16118
Length of Position:See Employment Authorization
Contact Person/Supervisor:Faculty advisor
Wage Range: $11.75-12.75
Description of the Position: (Purpose of the Position): Students work together with a faculty member on scholarly or artistic projects.
Project Title: Gratitude and Immigrant Identity.
Faculty Mentor:Piercarlo Valdesolo
Project Description: The vast majority of research on gratitude has explored its positive effects on prosocial behavior relationship building and well-being. A relatively unexplored dimension of this emotion is its relationship to power dynamics (c.f Bartlett Valdesolo & Arpin 2019) and its potential to promote submissiveness to high-power individuals and groups and entrench short gratitude towards others is expected of and disproportionately expressed by the less powerful (Anicich et al 2022). Societal narratives about whom should be grateful can even serve a system-justifying function (Eibach et al 2015) disadvantaging individuals or groups in positions of lower power via imposing social costs upon them if low levels of gratitude or dissatisfaction with existing social structures is expressed (c.f. Tsang et al 2021). For example recent research from critical migration studies on resettlement affect has described the prevalence of gratitude-towards-country narratives in migrant communities and the ways in which these themes can conflict with well-being. These narratives can reflect a fragile obligation to ones country in which the lingering pressure of gratitude regulates the expression of negative emotions (Iqbal et al 2021).
We have completed three studies (Total N 1400) that support the hypothesis that experiences of gratitude towards ones country vary across immigrant identity and that this difference predicts both patriotism as well as willingness to critique and challenge existing social structures. Work during the Spring semester will follow-up on these findings.
Students will aid in literature review programming experiments into online data collection software executing data collection organizing and analyzing data (depending on experience with statistics) designing follow-up studies and preparing poster presentations.
Contact: Piercarlo Valdesolo at valdes4@
Transferable Skills: Research and presentations.
Duties and Responsibilities:Each project has its own timing (number of hours per week and number of weeks) as determined by the individual faculty mentor. See theCURI Digital Olaf databasefor individual project descriptions and details.
Qualifications: (Education/Experience/Skills) A student interested in applying for the CURI academic year program must be enrolled as an on-campus St. Olaf student. There is no GPA requirement that must be met in order to apply for the program but a students academic record will be considered during the selection process. Skills are dependent on individual projects.
If you dont have a work award and select No to the application questions your application will be automatically rejected by the system. If you apply and are rejected please contact Erin Eltonga to resolve this for you.
This job description is for general information purposes. It is not intended to list all duties and responsibilities of the job description is subject to change at any time by St. Olaf College with or without prior notice.
Key Skills
- Intelligence Community Experience
- Python
- Spss
- Microsoft Word
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Windows
- Stata
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Data Modeling
- Writing Skills
