Nazita Lajevardi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University

Dr. Nazita Lajevardi (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University.

Lajevardi is broadly interested in the following question: what is the status of marginalized groups in American democracy? As such, she studies issues related to political discrimination and exclusion of marginalized groups in the United States. Her previous scholarship has largely examined American public opinion and political behavior through the lens of religious and racial identity, using an array of methodologies.

She is the author of Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia from Cambridge University Press, and her work has been featured in the popular media, including The AtlanticThe New York TimesThe Washington PostVox Magazine, Religion News Service, and Huffington Post.

Works By Nazita Lajevardi, Ph.D.

During his 2016 Republican National Convention nomination acceptance speech, former President Donald Trump stated: “Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted

Our current political polarization can feel new, but it has a long cultural history. Two dominant visions of American identity have historically been in tension and at times outright competition with one another: pluralism and

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