Vivien Leung, PhD

Vivien Leung (she/they) is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Political Science at Santa Clara University. Their research areas are in race and ethnic politics, political psychology, immigration, and American politics. More specifically, they are interested in the racialization of Asian Americans and how context shapes identity formation and influences behavior.

Vivien is a University of California President's Pre-professoriate Fellow (2020-2021), and an American Political Science Association Minority Fellow (2017).  Her work has appeared in Political Behavior, PS: Political Science and Politics, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Perspectives on Politics and has been awarded the Professor Harry H. L. Kitano prize for best graduate paper. She holds a Ph.D from the University of California, Los Angeles,  a M.A. from the American University, and a B.A. from California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona.