Alexandria Davis, PhD

Super excited to share my first solo-authored paper! In this paper, I evaluate promote models of voter turnout to better understand the growing racial turnout gap between Black and white voters using mini meta-analysis of 2016 and 2020 datasets.

My op-ed on our faltering democracy and how Latinos can help revitalize its. latinonewsnetwork.com/community/trum…

Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!) Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.

Is academia just a job? We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular. My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs. But the moment I started graduate school I knew I had found something I loved. For the first time in my life, I genuinely loved my job. And it shows--my daughter told me she wants to find a career she loves just as much as me.

Class is often overlooked as a driver of observed career and wealth disparities. This paper is a pretty incredible study into the role of class in the career progression of academia. Class has a substantial impact at nearly every stage of the academic pipeline. Important work. On a personal note, this tracks with my own experience as a first-gen student. In grad school, I was shocked at the number of peers who had academic parents. They arrived on the first day knowing about the journal publishing system, the importance of conferences for networking, etc.

Never in my entire life have I actually sent an email at 8:00 AM. If you receive an email from me at 8:00 AM you can rest absolutely assured that I schedule sent that mess at like 1:27 in the morning.

This year the feliz is not navidading😭

@CrystRobertson Congratulations!

My first solo pub is out!

#OpenAccess from @JournalREP - Paternalistic Push & Pull: The Role of Sexism in Public Opinion of Kamala Harris - cup.org/3WNgO04 - @CrystRobertson #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @JournalREP - Reconciling Theories and Patterns in Black-White Voter Turnout Through a Mini Meta-Analysis - cup.org/4n6joZy - @AcademicAjd #FirstView

Thank you to @EfrenPoliPsy for encouraging me to try meta-analysis and to publish this work!

Super excited to share my first solo-authored paper! In this paper, I evaluate promote models of voter turnout to better understand the growing racial turnout gap between Black and white voters using mini meta-analysis of 2016 and 2020 datasets.

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity on relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

🌊🦈 WE'RE BACK!!! 🌊🦈 Update your calendars bc JAWS is back for Fall 2025 📅 And our first session is next week, Wed 10/1! Also: NEW TIME! We've heard our old time was difficult for those with school pickups, so our new time is 1-2:30PM ET / 10-11:30AM PT 💫 More info ⬇️

HUGE catch w/ this headline: while all 7 focus group Latinos regretted voting for Trump, not a SINGLE one would vote for Harris in a rerun. Anti-Trump backlash alone simply is NOT gonna cut it. Dems NEED to change their message & stances if they want to win back nonwhite voters.

And another warm @ucisocsci welcome to Crystal Robertson, our newly hired political science assistant professor! Crystal specializes in research on race, ethnicity, and politics; gender and politics; and political psychology. socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/new…

Our next #ElectionScienceOfficeHours webinar, part of the #CaltechElectionIntegrity project, is 9/3 at 11 am PT. Join host @rmichaelalvarez and guest Natalie Masouka for a discussion on "Potential Impacts of Redistricting on California's Asian Americans." share.google/ikUlAqHvyjPl6R…

@RaqCenteno Thank you Raquel 🫶🏽

@AcademicAjd Yayyy congrats! 🥳

First week as an Assistant Professor down, many, many more to go 😊

Ask, and you shall receive. Here, I use the Pew definition of generational cohort to ensure sufficient sample size. First, we see that Millennial and Gen Z Black Americans have sharply decreased in their likelihood to identify with the Democratic Party.