Alexander Agadjanian
Welcome! I'm a political science Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.
My research interests center on race, political psychology, and political behavior, largely in American politics. A core focus of my research is the intersection of politics and racial fluidity. Specifically, in studying rapidly growing groups with ambiguous positions in the racial hierarchy such as Hispanic and multiracial Americans, I explore changes in racial identification, how political factors can shape this identity change, and what a bidirectional relationship between politics and racial identity means for how we understand group politics and American society.
My research also examines elite rhetoric, racial attitudes, and other areas in public opinion. I study all of these topics using survey experiments, public surveys, election returns, textual data, cast vote records, voter files, Census microdata, and more.
My research and analysis has appeared in publications like the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Public Opinion Quarterly, and outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate Magazine, CNN, FiveThirtyEight, and NBC News.
