Nazita Lajevardi

Dr. Nazita Lajevardi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from UC San Diego, and prior to joining Michigan State, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Government at Uppsala University. In AY 2021-2022, she was the Winant Professor at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Lajevardi works on issues related to public opinion and political behavior through the lens of religious and racial identity. Her scholarship examines how stigmatized groups — and Muslim Americans in particular — fare in American democracy. Broadly, her scholarship is related to race and ethnic politics, political behavior, voting rights, and immigration. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in venues, such as American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, and Cambridge University Press, among others. More information about Dr. Lajevardi can be found here.