Expertise

Her main fields of study are American politics, political behavior, and race and ethnic politics.

She also examines how immigrant voters form their party identification and the role of discrimination and xenophobic rhetoric on their civic engagement and collective action.

My research on American politics addresses political behavior, public opinion, and political incorporation with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, and immigration.

My dissertation is a study of the effectiveness of pan-ethnic (e.g., Asian American; Latino/Hispanic) and national origin (e.g., Chinese American; Mexican American) identity appeals on voter turnout, candidate evaluation, and civic participation among Latinos and Asian Americans.

On other on-going work, I am invested in intra- and inter-group political behavior.

Research Projects:

  • Identity Appeals in the Age of Immigration (Book Project)
  • Bring Your Own Voters - The role of political institutional contact and political mobilization among non-white voters
  • The Waning of Vietnamese American Republican Exceptionalism: Partisanship among Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, California
  • A Wedge between Black and White:
  • Korean Americans and Minority Race Relations in Twenty-First-Century America
  • Blood is Thicker than Association: An investigation of the persistence of national origin identity on voting for Kamala Harris

Expertise:

  • Asian American Studies
Affiliations

Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University Bloomington

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Assistant Professor, Department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University
2023

Global Asian Studies Program, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University
2023

Past Affiliations

Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan (past)

Communities
Political Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Michigan, Political Science, 2019
BA, University of California, Berkeley, Political Science, 2010
Keywords
race and ethnic politics racial justice comparative government or politics