I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. I study comparative politics and political behavior with an emphasis on democratic representation, social identity, and intergroup relations. I have a regional interest in South Asia, primarily India.

I'm currently working on a book project that examines how minority political power shapes identity and electoral politics. In other research, I focus on majority-minority tensions and the mobilization capacity of civil society. Across these projects, my work highlights the challenges and possibilities of building inclusive democracies. My research is mixed-methods in nature, drawing on administrative data, original surveys, and in-depth interviews with elites and voters during fieldwork.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Democracy. 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.

I am currently a Global Scholar with CIFAR in the Boundaries, Membership, and Belonging program. 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. 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 X at @FeyaadAllie and on Bluesky at @feyaadallie.bsky.social.

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