Project Title: Puerto Rico Public Opinion Laboratory
Viviana Rivera-Burgos, Baruch College, City University of New York
Viviana Rivera-Burgos is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Baruch College in the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from Columbia University and her B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez. Viviana specializes in American public opinion and political behavior, particularly as they relate to racial and ethnic minorities. Her current work focuses on Latinos’ racial attitudes and their support for police-reform policies and the Black Lives Matter movement. She is also an Investigator on the Puerto Rico Public Opinion Lab (PR-POL), the first large-scale, nationally representative survey of Puerto Ricans on the island. Her research has been funded by the Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI), PSC-CUNY, and Columbia’s Center on African American Politics and Society, the Division of Social Science, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants are open to all to provide research support that examines political science phenomena affecting underserved communities and underrepresented groups. In July 2025, APSA awarded 11 projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of $22,000.