Kiela CrabtreeAssistant Professor

Kiela Crabtree studies the politics of race, identity, violence and conflict in the United States. Her research examines how racially-targeted violence impacts political participation and public opinion, and also focuses on the political legacies of conflict in the U.S., particularly as they relate to social identity and hierarchy. Crabtree earned her PhD in 2022 from the University of Michigan and served as a post-doctoral fellow at Emory University's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference from 2022-2023.