https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/about-me daily 1.0 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/05f53411-b7b9-4af4-b3a1-4ae441c115d8/IMG_8992+copy.jpg About Me - Dr. Chaya Crowder is an Associate 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 book project (Oxford University Press 2025), 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’s book won the 2026 WEB DuBois Distinguished Book Award awarded by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. 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 2026 Rodney Higgins Best Faculty Paper Award from NCOBPS and 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. https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/about-me-hatch daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/listing-01-hatch daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751bbc486db4370da3d4e24/1468871308856-43KR84BNGWOEQ1GBH6MK/JessieWebster_Treehouse_25.jpg Listing 01 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/listing-02-hatch daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751bbc486db4370da3d4e24/1468871473977-9ZW1HHLAWJD2HXK6V20G/JessieWebster_Lifestyle_36.jpg Listing 02 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/listing-03-hatch daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751bbc486db4370da3d4e24/1468871574948-78VCF5VCJ7Y23DCOLM1S/JessieWebster_HM_09.jpg Listing 03 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/listing-04-hatch daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751bbc486db4370da3d4e24/1468871735282-YPBK7Q05GF5EPQ630O78/JessieWebster_Squarespace_28.jpg Listing 04 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/new-page daily 0.75 2019-01-14 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2019-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547496110768-2J5TYKHNQBVUGX3UR9R3/ChayaAcademicHeadshot.jpg New Page - Chaya Crowder is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Politics at Princeton University where she is also receiving a certificate in African-American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Chaya’s research interests include political behavior, race and ethnicity 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 dissertation, entitled “Intersectional Solidarity and Political Mobilization: The Impact of a Political Consciousness of Race, Gender and Sexuality on Political Behavior” explores how consciousness of the intersection of racial discrimination and gender discrimination impacts evaluations of marginalized groups. Chaya develops a theory and measurement of what she calls “intersectional solidarity,” which is defined as awareness and distress over multiple subgroups’ oppression. Chaya is a 2018-2019 McGraw Teaching Fellow at Princeton University. She is the 2018 recipient of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists’ Bayard Rustin Best LGBTQ Student Paper Award. Chaya is also a 2016 recipient of the Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and a 2015-2016 APSA Minority Fellow. Chaya has served as an Assistant Instructor for undergraduate courses in American Politics and African-American Studies. Prior to arriving at Princeton, Chaya graduated with a BA and an MA in Political Science from Columbia University where she was a John Kluge Scholar. https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/curriculum-vitae-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2019-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547497878904-JD9HR6KXFFXHC9X1XYFO/Mass+Media+Rating.png New Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547497953388-VW8A080I186N6QLJKAX7/Mass+Media+Feedback.png New Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547498146237-LV5432RYG3EBHI6Q6J1W/AAS+rating.png New Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547498173953-PLZ97G2QCWHOXD7LIDZQ/AAS+feedback.png New Page https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/teaching daily 0.75 2024-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/74c81dec-c12a-48fe-8d78-2d0d62e5faab/Black-Politics-Group-Shot.png Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1621890301881-II4OAP75ZKY45WEL6YAT/POLS3998+Evals.png Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1609803633822-I67VY9V1QAE5D5J4C1GB/Screen+Shot+2021-01-04+at+3.38.15+PM.png Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547498433457-BBUTJDFXXKX3U25ZRIGP/Mass+Media+Rating.png Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547498450134-GGKTEAOY1D98KETE7YYV/Mass+Media+Feedback.png Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547498503285-6I0M9CXKS46FMJTBZ88F/AAS+rating.png Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/1547498522130-YTTZ5TEZ6PHKTDPKU8Z5/AAS+feedback.png Teaching https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://www.chayacrowderphd.com/research daily 0.75 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c34dc524cde7a1a899f947f/8290f338-dca6-4637-b8a9-06a4dd179a0f/Crowder+Front+Cover.jpg Research - Intersectional Solidarity: Black Women and the Politics of Group Consciousness (Oxford University Press) Black women have been credited for Democratic wins in a number of recent consequential elections. Yet outside of the post-election glow, Black women’s interests tend not to attract a great deal of attention from politicians, media, or the public more broadly. In Intersectional Solidarity, Chaya Y. Crowder looks at the question of what prompts people to prioritize issues that affect Black women, and when? In particular, she challenges the notion that racial or gender consciousness alone shape political preferences and instead argues that intersectional group consciousness shapes political behavior. Crowder contends that a combination of race, gender, sexuality, and class-based consciousness influences political behavior, particularly when it comes to issues that affect individuals at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. Further, she introduces an “intersectional solidarity index” (ISI), informed by work in social psychology, political science, and Black feminist theory. Crowder applies her four-item scale to capture group consciousness at the intersection of race, gender, class and sexuality, but she uses it particularly to explore what groups demonstrate solidarity with Black women, and why. By measuring intersectional solidarity, the book provides insight into the possibilities for intersectional politics and demonstrates that in order to fully understand how people come to care about issues that affect Black women, scholars are required to ask new questions. 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