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
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