Ethnic, cultural and identity politics

Key Publications: 

• “Deliberating across difference - religious accommodation and deliberative democracy.” Journal of Law, Religion, and State.

See Afsoun Afsahi's full profile here   

Key Publications: 

• “Inactive and quiescent? Immigrant Collective Action in Comparative Perspective, 1960-1995”, Socius, 2024.
• “Claiming membership: boundaries, positionality, US citizenship, and what it means to be American”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2022.
• “Theorizing Citizenship as Claims-Making”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018.
• “Political Stories: Media Narratives of Political Participation by Asian Immigrants in the United States and Canada”, Politics, Groups and Identities, 2016.
• Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, 2006.

See Irene Bloemraad's full profile here   

Key Publications:

• "Ethnic Segregation and Public Goods" American Political Science Review, 2018.
• "Language Politics, Education, and Ethnic Integration" Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2019.

See Kai Ostwald's full profile here. 

Key Publications:

• "Diversity Matters: The Election of Asian Americans to U.S. State and Federal Legislatures" American Political Science Review, 2023.
• "Multiculturalism and Muslim Accommodation: Policy and Predisposition Across Three Contexts" Comparative Political Studies, 2016
• "Alternative Measures of American National Identity: Implications for the Civic-Ethnic Distinction" Political Psychology, 2012

Current Research Projects: Changing American Hearts & Minds on Immigration Policy

See Matthew Wright's full profile here. 

  Key Publications:

• “‘Judge Lynch’ in the Court of Public Opinion: Publicity and De-legitimation of Lynching,” American Political Science Review, 2019
• “Do parties matter for ethnic violence? Evidence from India,” Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2016
• “Does Electing Islamists Increase Religious Violence and Intolerance?,” British Journal of Political Science, 2020

See Michael Weaver's full profile here   

Key Publications: 

• "The Roots of Racism: The Politics of White Supremacy in the US and Europe." Bristol University Press, 2022.
• "Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides." Policy Press, 2021.
• "Legislating Equality: The Politics of Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe.", 2014.
• "Nationalism vs. Multiculturalism: European Identity and the Impact of the Radical Right on Antidiscrimination Policy in Europe." In Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism, 2014.
• "Immigrant Politics: Race and Representation in Western Europe." Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012.

Courses: POLI 422A-002 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics: Transatlantic Race Politics

See Terri Givens' full profile here.