Chris Flores

Chris Flores is a PhD Candidate in Political Science. Chris’ research broadly examines race, ethnicity, and political behavior in the U.S. using machine learning and causal inference techniques. Their dissertation focuses on the ethnoracial identities of Latinos, who make up one in five individuals in the U.S. and complicate prevailing understandings of race and ethnicity. Using surveys, interviews, and administrative data, their dissertation explores the multiple ways Latinos identify their race in the U.S., how and why these ethnoracial identities are linked to political attitudes, and how they are shaped by institutions and social movements. In other projects, they examine Latino partisanship and immigration attitudes, racial fluidity, and political campaign rhetoric on immigration and Latinos.

Chris is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Graduate Scholar-in-Residence at El Centro Chicano y Latino at Stanford. Their work has been supported by the Center for American Democracy and the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford. Chris holds an M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and an A.B. in Politics and Latino Studies from Princeton University, where they received the John G. Buchanan Prize for the highest standing in the Department of Politics.