Research

Publications

Coming soon.

Steur, J., Henson, A., & Nie, Q. (2026). "Reconsidering Technology Policies: A Pedagogical Tool to Promote Greater Deliberative Reasoning in the Political Science Classroom." (Revise and Resubmit)
Chan, N., & Nie, Q. (2026). "Understanding the Effects of Experiencing Differing Types of Implicit and Explicit Racial Discrimination on Political Participation: The Case of Chinese Americans." (Under Review)
Lyons, A., Liao, T., Nie, Q., & Kim, D. (2025). "Understanding American College Students' Perception and Reception of Students of East Asian Origin."
Moreira, J., & Nie, Q. (2025). "Shaping Politics: The Dynamic Interplay of Race and Body Perception in Evaluating Asian American Political Leaders."
Nie, Q. (2024). "Sources of Discrimination and Political Participation: A Case Study of Asian Americans."

American Political Science Association 2026 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, September 2026. "Voting Against the Group: Psychological Pathways to Electoral Outgroup Favoritism in the United States."
2026 Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 2026. "The Language of Distrust: Deconstructing the 'Trojan Horse' Rhetoric in U.S. Elite Policy Discourse on the China Threat."
Western Political Science Association Conference 2025, Seattle, WA, April 2025. "How Do Sources of Discrimination Affect Political Participation? A Case Study of Asian Americans."
Midwest Political Science Association Conference 2024, Chicago, IL, April 2024. "Shaping Politics: The Dynamic Interplay of Race and Body" (with Jair Moreira).
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC), University of North Texas, Denton, TX, November 2023. "Shaping Politics: The Dynamic Interplay of Race and Body" (with Jair Moreira).

American Political Science Association 2026 Annual Meeting Travel Grant
Rita and Leonard Ogren Best Conference Paper Prize, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois (AY 2025-2026)
President's Research in Diversity Travel Award, University of Illinois (Spring 2025)
Curris Award for Conference Travel, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
Women's Caucus for Political Science Travel Grant (September 2024)
Research Experiment Award (with Jair Moreria), Department of Political Science, University of Illinois (Spring 2024)
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) Travel Grant (Fall 2023)
Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant, Department of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois (April 2023)