Christine Slaughter

Christine Marie Slaughter, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests center on African American politics, inequality, voting rights, and political psychology, with a particular focus on the political experiences of Black women. She is finalizing a book manuscript, Resilience to Adversity: How Black Voters are Mobilized to Counter Voter Suppression, which introduces the novel concept of racial resilience to explain Black political behavior. Her research has received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the American Political Science Association.   Dr. Slaughter earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before Boston University, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research has been published in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Politics and Gender,  Politics, Groups, and Identities, among other top peer-reviewed political science journals.

She is a proud graduate of Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was a UNCF/Mellon Mays Fellow.

Believing that scholarship should reach beyond the academy, Dr. Slaughter is deeply committed to public engagement and collaboration with local media and communities. You can learn more about her public scholarship and outreach www.christinemslaughter.com.