I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. My research centers on democracy, identity, and intergroup relations with a regional focus in South Asia, primarily India.
I study the challenges to creating an inclusive political system in multi-ethnic societies. I'm currently working on a book project that examines the causes and consequences of political representation, with Muslims in India as the primary case. In other work, I focus on the drivers of majority-minority tensions and political party responses to majoritarianism. My research is mixed-methods in nature, drawing on administrative data, original surveys, and in-depth elite and voter interviews during fieldwork.
My work has been published in the Journal of Politics and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. I have also received several awards for my research, including the Gabriel A. Almond Award (2024) for the best dissertation in comparative politics, the Juan Linz Prize (2024) for the best dissertation in the comparative study of democracy, the Best Fieldwork Award (2024) from the APSA Democracy and Autocracy section, and the Sage Best Paper Award (2023) from the APSA Comparative Politics section.
From 2023-2024, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Government Department at Harvard University. 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.