Welcome to StephenElk.com!  This is my personal website for information about my professional research and personal information.  I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Politics at Claremont Graduate University, where I teach courses on political science and research methods.  I also work as a data scientist for private contractors on issues ranging from targeting, to mobilization strategies, to voting rights cases.  My personal research primarily focuses on the politics of race, immigration, and ethnicity through the lenses of behavioral and comparative politics.  More specifically, my existing and continued work evaluates discrimination, public policy, and political psychology.  I am primarily inspired and driven by my experiences with inclusion and discrimination as a bi-racial, first-generation Arab-American Muslim.
​Education
  • Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Riverside​
    • Dissertation: “Morality and the Marginalized: The Politics of Identity and Morality”
  • M.A. Political Science, University of California, Riverside (2018)
    • Political Mass Behavior
  • ​M.A. Social Science and Globalization Studies, California State University, San Bernardino (2015)
    • ​Security Studies
  • ​B.A. Social Science, California State University, San Bernardino (2013)
    • ​Political Science, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and Anthropology
  • ​B.A. Arabic Language, Literature, and Culture, California State University, San Bernardino (2013)