Race and Ethnic Politics

Black Politics

Political Behavior

Political Psychology

American Elections

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles (2025)
• Master's Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles (2023)
• B.A., Political Science and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2020)

Research Interests

• Race and ethnic politics
• Black politics
• Political behavior
• Political psychology
• American elections

Select Publications

• Nguy, Joyce, Davis, Alexandria, Chan, Nathan. (2024). Ladies’ Choice: Women of Color Linked Fate and Cross-Racial Support for Politicians. Public Opinion Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaf019
• Robertson, Crystal, Alexandria Davis, Joyce Nguy, Claudia Alegre, Samyu Comandur, and Lorrie Frasure. “Views on Men Behaving Badly: Male Public Opinion and the 2021 Capitol Insurrection.” The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 10, no. 1 (2025): 199–220. https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2025.8
• Barreto, M. A., Alegre, C., Bailey, J. I., Davis, A., Ferrer, J., Nguy, J., Palmisano, C., & Robertson, C. (2023). Black Lives Matter and the Racialized Support for the January 6th Insurrection. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 708(1), 64-82.
  

Courses

• Politics of Race, Gender, and Class
• Research Methods