I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Government Department at Harvard University. Starting in Fall 2024, I will be an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard.
My research broadly focuses on democracy, identity, and intergroup relations. I’m currently working on a book project that studies the causes and consequences of the political representation of marginalized groups with a focus on Muslims in India. In other work, I study the intersection of technology and politics and the role of religion in politics. Across my research, I use large-scale administrative data, original surveys, archival documents, and in-depth interviews during fieldwork. Regionally, most of my work is focused on South Asia, primarily India. My research has been published in the Journal of Politics.
I received my Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2023. In my final year of graduate school (2022-2023), I was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford. Prior to graduate school, I worked on an international development project in Nairobi, Kenya. I am a first-generation college student and received a B.A. summa cum laude in Government from Dartmouth College.
You can contact me at feyaadallie [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu and follow me on Twitter @FeyaadAllie
Research Interests: intergroup relations, identity and ethnic politics, democracy, political behavior, and South Asian politics.