Nazita Lajevardi — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University since January 2018
Author of 'Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia' (2020)
Coauthor of '(Mis)Informed: What Americans Know about Social Groups and Why It Matters for Politics' (2021)
Winant Fellow at Balliol College and Winant Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford (2021-2022)
Received research funding from the National Science Foundation, Swedish Research Council, Formas, Social Science Research Council, and Facebook
Holds a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law, and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles

Biography

Dr. Nazita Lajevardi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, a position she has held since January 2018. She earned her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, her JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law, and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.