Dr. Chaya Crowder is an Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. She received her PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University where she also received certificates in African-American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Dr. Crowder’s research and teaching interests include political behavior, race and ethnicity politics, social media and American politics as well as gender and American politics. She uses an intersectional approach in her research to explore the ways that attention to race, gender and sexuality have differential effects on political behavior.
Her forthcoming book project (Oxford University Press), entitled Intersectional Solidarity: Black Women and The Politics of Group Consciousness explores how consciousness of the intersection of racial discrimination and gender discrimination impacts support for political issues that affect Black women. Dr. Crowder develops a theory and measurement of what she calls “intersectional solidarity,” which is defined as awareness and distress over multiple subgroups’ oppression.
Dr. Crowder previously worked as a social justice research fellow at the Center for Popular Democracy. She graduated with a BA and an MA in Political Science from Columbia University where she was a John Kluge Scholar.
Her work has appeared in such journals as Politics, Groups and Identities, PS: Political Science & Politics and Perspectives on Politics. She has also written articles that have appeared in The Washington Post and The Grio.
She is the recipient of the 2023 Anna Julia Cooper Outstanding Publication Award for “Doing More Thank Thanking Black Women” from The Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics.