Ashley Jardina

add contact to address book

Jardina 2011

Doctoral Student
American Politics

  • Fields of Study
    • American Politics, Race and Ethnicity Politics, Political Behavior
  • About

    Ashley is a Ph.D. candidate in American politics at the University of Michigan.  Her primary research interests include race and ethnicity, public opinion, and identity politics.  Her dissertation examines the effect of changing demographics in the United States on racial group attitudes and recent political behavior like support for strict immigration policies and the Tea Party movement.

    Other projects focus on the role of party signals on race and gender in party realignment (with Nancy Burns, Don Kinder, and Molly Reynolds) and the ability of elite messages to activate white racial identity (with Vincent Hutchings, Robert Mickey, and Hanes Walton, Jr.).  

  • Education
    • University of Michigan, B.A. Political Science, 2006
    • University of Michigan, M.A. Political Science 2006
  • Grants
    • Gerald R. Ford Fellowship, The University of Michigan, 2011
    • Susan Lipschutz Award for promising women scholars, The University of Michigan, 2011
    • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2007-2010
  • Presentations
    • “The Politics of Race: How Threat Cues and Group Position Can Activate White Identity.” (with Vincent L. Hutchings, Robert Mickey, and Hanes Walton, Jr.), 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference
    • “Latinos in the South: Republican Strategic Responses.” (with Jennifer L. Miller-Gonzalez), Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, 2011
    • “The Racial Divide on Immigration Opinion: Why Blacks are Less Threatened by Immigrants.” (with Ted Brader, Nicholas A. Valentino, and Timothy J. Ryan), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2010
  • Dissertation Title
    • Threats to Dominant Group Status and the Role of Racial Identity in Whites' Political Preferences
  • Dissertation Chair
    • Ted Brader and Vincent Hutchings (co-chairs)
  • Dissertation Committee
    • Donald Kinder, Nicholas Valentino, Oscar Ybarra