As of Fall 2023, Ashley Jardina is an assistant professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Jardina’s research focuses on racial attitudes, racial conflict, and the way in which group identities influence political preferences in the United States. Her research and commentary have been widely featured in outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Vox, 538, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and more.

Her book, White Identity Politics, was published by Cambridge University Press. It is the 2020 winner of the American Political Science Association’s Robert E. Lane award for the best book published in political psychology. In 2021, she received the American Political Science Association Elections, Voting Behavior, and Public Opinion Section’s Emerging Scholar Award for a top scholar in the field within 10 years of their Ph.D.