Research
Publications
Coming soon.
Working Papers
- Steur, J., Henson, A., & Nie, Q. (2026). "Reconsidering Technology Policies: A Pedagogical Tool to Promote Greater Deliberative Reasoning in the Political Science Classroom."
- 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."
- 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."
Presentations
- 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).
Peer Review
Coming soon.
Awards and Honors
- 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)
