Welcome! I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee. Before 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 examines how poverty and mental health shape the way citizens, especially adolescents and young adults, think about and engage with politics. The links above provide more information about my research, while the links below connect to my publications.

Publications

1. Democracy and Depression: A Cross-National Study of Depressive Symptoms
   and Non-Participation
   Claudia Landwehr and Christopher Ojeda
   American Political Science Review, forthcoming

2. The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization
   Peter Hatemi and Christopher Ojeda
   British Journal of Political Science (2020)
   *News coverage: Curiosity Daily Podcast, National Affairs, PsyPost

3. The Political Responses of Virtual Assistants
   Christopher Ojeda
   Social Science Computer Review (2019)

4. Federalism and the Racialization of Welfare Policy
   Christopher Ojeda, Anne Whitesell, Michael Berkman, and Eric Plutzer
   State Politics and Policy Quarterly (2019)

5. A Healthy Democracy? Evidence of Unequal Representation across Health Status
   Juliana Pacheco and Christopher Ojeda
   Political Behavior (2019)

6. Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout
   Christopher Ojeda and Christine Slaughter
   Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law (2019)

7. Measuring Complex State Policies: Pitfalls and Considerations, with an Application to Race and Welfare Policy
   Eric Plutzer, Michael Berkman, Jakes Honaker, Christopher Ojeda, and Anne Whitesell
   Policy Studies Journal (2019)

8. The Two Income-Participation Gaps
   Christopher Ojeda
   American Journal of Political Science (2018)
   *News coverage: Brookings Institute, Scholars Strategy Network

9. Health and Voting in Young Adulthood
   Christopher Ojeda and Julianna Pacheco
   British Journal of Political Science (2017)
   *News coverage: Journalist’s Resources

10. 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)

11. 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, PBS, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Slate Magazine, Star Tribune, U.S. News & World Report, U.S. Today, Vox

12. Depression 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

13. 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