Olivia Christley

Olyvia Christley is a fourth year PhD Candidate in the in Politics Department at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses primarily on the political psychology of gender and nativism. Her dissertation explores how implicit attitudes about gender work through nativism to drive support for radical right politics, with a particular focus on individuals living in Hungary, Poland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her additional research interests include public opinion towards immigration, the role of nationalism in political behavior, and the ways in which the state creates and upholds power imbalances between genders. She is especially interested in improving and expanding the ways in which we use quantitative methods to answer questions about gender.