Christian Dyogi Phillips is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California, and holds affiliations with the USC Institute for Intersectionality and Social Transformation and the USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute.
Dr. Phillips’ research addresses political behavior and institutions, representation, and political incorporation, with an emphasis on the intersection of race, gender and immigrant communities in American politics. Her newest project examines how workers’ experiences on the job and in unions shape their politics.
In 2021, Phillips’ first book Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender and Immigration in American Elections, was published by Oxford University Press, and is available here.
Nowhere to Run has been awarded the APSA-IPSA Theodore Lowi First Book Award, the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association and the Don T. Nakanishi Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Service in Asian Pacific American Politics from the Western Political Science Association.
Prior to becoming an academic, Phillips led organizing and political campaigns in the American labor movement. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from UC Berkeley, M.P.A. from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and B.A. from Hampshire College.
