I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. My research centers on democracy, identity, and intergroup relations with a regional focus on South Asia, primarily India.

I'm currently working on a book project based on my doctoral dissertation that examines the causes and consequences of minority political power. In other research, I focus on the drivers of majority-minority tensions and political responses to majoritarianism and democratic backsliding. Across these projects, my work highlights both 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 in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Democracy, 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.

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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