Christina Bejarano
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas
Christina Bejarano is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Iowa and her B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Texas. Her research and teaching interests are in American politics, in particular the areas of gender, race/ethnicity, and political behavior. She is particularly interested in theories that outline the conditions under which racial/ethnic minorities and women successfully compete for electoral office and how they shape or influence the current electoral environment. Additional focus includes questions of intersectionality of race/ethnicity and gender. Her research has been published in Political Research Quarterly and in edited volumes.
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