
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. My research focuses on the social and economic roots of political inequality, with a special emphasis on political behavior, poverty, and health.
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. In the summer of 2018, I was a research fellow at the Universities of Mainz and Münster in Germany.
Publications
A Healthy Democracy? Evidence of Unequal Representation across Health Status
Juliana Pacheco and Christopher Ojeda
Political Behavior (conditionally accepted)Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout
Christopher Ojeda and Christine Slaughter
Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law (forthcoming)Measuring Complex State Policies: Pitfalls and Considerations, with an Application to Race and Welfare Policy
Michael Berkman, Jakes Honaker, Christopher Ojeda, Eric Plutzer, and Anne Whitesell
Policy Studies Journal (forthcoming)Federalism and the Racialization of Welfare Policy
Christopher Ojeda, Anne Whitesell, Michael Berkman, and Eric Plutzer
State Politics and Policy Quarterly (forthcoming)The Two Income-Participation Gaps
Christopher Ojeda
American Journal of Political Science (2018)
*News coverage: Brookings InstituteHealth and Voting in Young Adulthood
Christopher Ojeda and Julianna Pacheco
British Journal of Political Science (2017)
*News coverage: Journalist’s ResourcesThe 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)Accounting for the Child in the Transmission of Party Identification
Christopher Ojeda and Pete Hatemi
American Sociological Review (2015)
*News coverage: Chicago Tribune, CNN, Pacific Standard, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Slate Magazine, Star Tribune, U.S. News & World Report, U.S. Today, VoxDepression and Political Participation
Christopher Ojeda
Social Science Quarterly (2015)
*News coverage: Commonweal, Journalist’s Resources
*Honorable mention in the DC-AAPOR and PANJ-AAPOR Student Paper Competitions
*Presentation slides (used at invited talks)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
working papers
Child Perception and Motivation in the Political Socialization Process, invitation to revise and resubmit
Peter Hatemi and Christopher OjedaWhat Do Parents Know? Parental Perception in Political Socialization, in progess
Christopher Ojeda and Peter HatemiIncome, Political Participation, and the Demands of Everyday Life, in progress
Christopher OjedaThe Political Opinions of Virtual Assistants, in progress
Christopher Ojeda
*AppendixDemocracy in the Age of Depression, in progess
Claudia Landwehr and Christopher Ojeda