Gay's research addresses American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity.
Not exactly a rigorous academic field, although she did get her bachelor's in economics from Stanford.
My communist older brother went to Stanford back in the 80s. He told me that after a student at Stanford committed suicide after getting a D in a class that Stanford quit giving out D’s. Stanford is just as bad as Harvard, an over, priced indoctrination camp for the rich idiots that go there.
Her economics degree from Stanford? Seriously, does any reasonable person think a black lesbian female was not the beneficiary of grade inflation? You’re a professor, “congratulations here’s your A”. Problem pushed down the pipeline.