Christine Marie Slaughter is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and is jointly appointed in the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Her dissertation, “No Strangers to Hardship”: African Americans, Inequality and the Politics of Resilience, develops a theory and measurement of “racial resilience” for lower resource African Americans with frequent participation in the political system. Christine’s primary research interests include Black politics, political behavior and political psychology, racial and ethnic politics, and poverty.

Dr. Slaughter’s dissertation was supported by the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2020), Institute of American Cultures and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA (2020), and the APSA/ National Science Foundation Dissertation Development and Improvement Grant (2020). She was previously awarded the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2016) and the American Political Science Association Minority Fellowship (2016).  She is the recipient of the 2019 Best Poster on Social Inequality from the APSA Class & Inequality Section Poster Session.

In 2021, she completed her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Christine holds a MA in Political Science from UCLA. Prior to UCLA, she graduated with a BA in Political Science and Comparative Women's Studies from Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a former UNCF/Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.

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