Meet Crystal Robertson, 2026 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient

Crystal Robertson, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. Before this she was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. She earned her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles with concentrations in American politics and race, ethnicity, and politics. Her current research focuses on the role of sexism in Black political behavior. More broadly her research includes racial politics, gender politics, and social movements. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, and the Washington Post.