I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. Before coming to Tennessee, I was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. I earned a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. from Christopher Newport University.

My research focuses on U.S. politics, political behavior and psychology, public opinion, poverty, and health. I am particularly interested in understanding the social and economic roots of political inequality.

working papers

• Federalism and the Racialization of Welfare Policy, conditionally accepted
  Christopher Ojeda, Anne Whitesell, Michael Berkman, and Eric Plutzer
   
• Measuring Complex State Policies: Pitfalls and Considerations, with an Application to Race and Welfare Policy, conditionally accepted
  Michael Berkman, Jakes Honaker, Christopher Ojeda, Eric Plutzer, and Anne Whitesell
   
• Perception, Adoption, and the Microprocesses of Political Socialization, invitation to revise and resubmit
  Peter Hatemi and Christopher Ojeda
  
  The Political Opinions of Virtual Assistants, under review
  Christopher Ojeda
    *Appendix
   
• Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout, under review
  Christopher Ojeda and Christine Slaughter

Publications

1. The Two Income-Participation Gaps
   Christopher Ojeda
   American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming)
    
2. Health and Voting in Young Adulthood
   Christopher Ojeda and Julianna Pacheco
   British Journal of Political Science (2017)
    
3. The Social Network Clustering of Sexual Violence Experienced by Adolescent Girls
   Holly Shakya, Christopher Fariss, Christopher Ojeda, Anita Raj, and Elizabeth Reed
   American Journal of Epidemiology (2017)
    
4. Accounting for the Child in the Transmission of Party Identification
   Christopher Ojeda and Pete Hatemi
   American Sociological Review (2015)
     *News coverage:
       CNN
       Pacific Standard
       Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
       Slate Magazine
       Star Tribune
       U.S. News & World Report
       U.S. Today
       Vox
    
5. Depression and Political Participation
   Christopher Ojeda
   Social Science Quarterly (2015)
     *Honorable mention in the DC-AAPOR and PANJ-AAPOR Student Paper Competitions
     *Presentation slides (used at invited talks),
    
6. The Effects of 9/11 on the Heritability of Political Trust
   Christopher Ojeda
   Political Psychology (2014)
      *Winner of the AAPOR Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition
      *Replication material