About
Dr. Chong is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Chong’s research centers race, ethnicity, and immigration to understand American politics and minority political behavior. She is currently working on a book manuscript explaining the role of identity appeals on Asian American and Latino political behavior. In 2020-2022, she will be a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University.
Current Work
Chinbo Chong is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and a visiting assistant professor in the department of political science at Indiana University. She is a first-generation college student who grew up in South Korea, Alaska, Kansas, Washington, and California. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2019). Her main fields of study are in American politics, political behavior, and race and ethnic politics. At CRRES, she will be working on her book manuscript titled Identity Appeals in the Age of Immigration. Her book project uses original survey experiments, large observational political surveys, and qualitative data, which speaks to the discussion about the formation of political identity, how this differs for Asian American and Latino voters, and its impact on mobilizing these two important American electorate. She has also examined how immigrant voters form their party identification, and the role of discrimination and xenophobic rhetoric on their political behavior and collective action.