Feyaad Allie

Department of Government, Harvard University Email: feyaadallie@fas.harvard.edu

1737 Cambridge Street, Room K150 Website: www.feyaadallie.com
Cambridge, MA 02138 Last updated: September 2024

Academic Appointments
Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Government, 2024-
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Government, 2023-2024
Stanford University
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, 2022-2023

Education
Stanford University
Ph.D., Political Science, 2023
M.A., Political Science, 2020
Committee: Jeremy Weinstein (chair), James Fearon, Saad Gulzar, David Laitin, Soledad Prillaman
Dissertation: Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India
• Gabriel A. Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics, APSA (2024)
• Juan Linz Prize Dissertation Award, APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section (2024)
• Best Fieldwork Award, APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section (2024)
• Sardar Patel Award for the Best Dissertation on Modern India (2023)

Dartmouth College
B.A., Government with Honors and Geography minor, 2012-2016
Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude

Publications
“Facial Recognition Technology and Voter Turnout.” (2023) Journal of Politics. 85 (1): 328-333.
“Sacred Time and Religious Violence: Evidence from Hindu-Muslim Riots in India.” Forthcoming
at Journal of Conflict Resolution

Working Papers
“The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India.” (under
review)
• Sage Best Paper Award, APSA Comparative Politics Section (2023)
• Best Paper Award, APSA Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section (2023)
• Weber Best Paper Award, APSA Religion and Politics Section (2023)
• Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award, APSA Religion and Politics Section (2023)

1
 • Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award, APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section (2023)
• Kellogg/Notre Dame Award, Best Paper in Comparative Politics, MPSA (2024)
• Richard E. Matland Award, Best Paper on Representation, Elections, or Voting, MPSA (2024)

Works In Progress
Power Undone: How Minority Representation Shapes Identity Politics in India
(book project, tentative title)
“Examining the Religious Identity Expression of Indian Voters from 1950 to 1995.”
(with Viktor Enssle, Tanushree Goyal, Saad Gulzar, Gufran Pathan)
“Top-Down Representation: How Coethnicity Across Levels Promotes Minority Inclusion in India.”
(with Rahul Verma)
“Leader-Driven Campaigns and Party Building in India”
(with Resuf Ahmed)
“The Kinship-Based Roots of Ethnic Conflict.”
“Non-Partisan Grassroots Organizations as Electoral Actors.”
(with Pratik Mahajan)
“Telegraphs and the Technology of Conflict: Evidence from the 1857 Indian Rebellion.”
(with Zuhad Hai)

Other Writings
Mapping Muslim Voting Behavior in India. February 2024. Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. India Elects 2024 Series. Republished in the Hindustan Times.
Decoding Bharat Jodo Yatra’s impact on Karnataka elections. May 2023. Hindustan Times.
(with Resuf Ahmed)
Immigration Policy Lab Report: Using IOM Flow Monitoring Data to Describe Migration in West
and Central Africa. September 2021.
(with Darin Christensen, Guy Grossman, and Jeremy M. Weinstein)
“Book Review of Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance: The Muslim Pilgrims’ Paradox .”
September 2019. Nationalities Papers.

Conferences
New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development, USC; 2025 (scheduled)
Pre-APSA, South Asia Junior Faculty Workshop; 2024
APSA, Annual Meeting; 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
University of Pennsylvania CASI Political Economy of India Workshop; 2024
MPSA, Annual Meeting; 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC); 2020, 2023
Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS); 2023
Religion and Politics Mini-Conference, Yale; 2022
Berkeley Center on Contemporary India Annual Workshop; 2022

2
King’s India Institute Graduate Conference; 2021

Invited Talks
2024: MIT Global Diversity Lab; University of Rochester Riker Seminar; UC Berkeley Comparative
Politics Colloquium (scheduled); UCLA Center for India and South Asia (scheduled); University
of Louisville Center for Asian Democracy (scheduled)
2023: University of Pennsylvania Comparative Politics / Center for the Advanced Study of India
(CASI) Workshop; Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics
2022: US Embassy in India; IDinsight Delhi; Stanford University Center for Democracy, Devel-
opment, and the Rule of Law; Ohio State University; UCLA; Harvard University; UT Austin;
University of Michigan; Rice University; Washington University in St. Louis; Smith College

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Gabriel A. Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics, APSA, 2024
Best Fieldwork Award, Democracy and Autocracy Section, APSA, 2024
Juan Linz Prize for the Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy, APSA, 2024
Kellogg/Notre Dame Award, Best Paper in Comparative Politics, MPSA, 2024
Richard E. Matland Award, Best Paper on Representation, Elections, or Voting, MPSA, 2024
Sardar Patel Award, Best Dissertation on India, UCLA Center for India and South Asia, 2023
Sage Best Paper Award, Comparative Politics Section, APSA, 2023
Best Paper Award, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section, APSA, 2023
Weber Best Paper Award, Religion and Politics Section, APSA, 2023
Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Religion and Politics Section, APSA, 2023
Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award, Democracy and Autocracy Section, APSA, 2023
IRiSS Dissertation Fellow, Stanford University, 2022-2023
Northern California Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowship, 2022
Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship (by department nomination), Stanford University, 2020
Stanford Impact Labs (SIL) Collaborative Research Fellowship, Stanford University, 2020
Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) Summer Research Fellowship, Stanford University, 2018
Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellowship, Stanford University, 2017-2023
APSA Minority Fellowship 2017-2019
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017-2022
Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention 2017
Rockefeller Senior Thesis Prize in Comparative Politics, Dartmouth College, 2016
Chase Peace Prize for Senior Thesis, Runner-Up, Dartmouth College, 2016
Mellon Mays Associate Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 2014-2016

Grants
Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD) Short-Term Grant, University of Gothenburg,
(27,000 SEK) with Rahul Verma, 2023
King Center for Global Development Full Grant, Stanford University ($12,500), 2022
Governance Initiative Travel Grant, J-PAL ($9,970), 2022
Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity, Stanford University ($3,620), 2022
Center for South Asia Grant, Stanford University ($3,000), 2022
Freeman Spogli Institute Research Grant, Stanford University ($1,119), 2022

3
Abbasi Program Grant, Stanford University ($15,000), 2020, 2021, 2022
Iranian Studies Program Grant, Stanford University ($4,500), 2019, 2022
King Center for Global Development Exploratory Grant, Stanford University ($6,450), 2020
IRiSS Center for Computational Social Science Grant, Stanford University ($2,000), 2020
Religion & Politics Small Grant, APSA ($3,000), 2020
Conflict and Polarization Initiative Grant, Stanford University ($10,000) with Zuhad Hai, 2019

Teaching
Instructor :
Democracy and Representation in India (undergraduate seminar), Harvard University, Fall 2024
Comparative Politics Research Workshop (with Alisha Holland), Harvard University, 2024-2025
Ethnic Politics (graduate seminar, with Melani Cammett), Harvard University, Spring 2025
Teaching Assistant:
Bing Honors Undergraduate Thesis Program (Vicky Fouka), Stanford University, Summer 2021
Data Science for Politics (Yiqing Xu), Stanford University, Fall 2020
The Science of Politics (Jonathan Rodden and Jeremy Weinstein), Stanford University, Spring 2020
The Science of Politics (Kenneth Schultz and Justin Grimmer), Stanford University, Winter 2019

Service
Reviewer for American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Research and Politics, British
Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, Economic Development and
Cultural Change, Asian Survey, Comparative Politics
Committees: APSA Comparative Politics Sage Best Paper Award Committee (2024), APSA Reli-
gion and Politics Weber Best Paper Award Committee (2024)
Co-Convener, Joint Brown-Harvard Seminar on South Asian Politics, 2024-2025
Co-Coordinator, Harvard Political Economy of Development Workshop, 2024-2025
Co-President, Stanford Political Science Graduate Student Association, 2020-2021
Co-Coordinator, Stanford Comparative Politics Student Workshop, 2020-2021
Teaching Assistant Mentor, 2019-2020
Co-Coordinator, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies Workshop, 2018-2021
Cohort Representative to Stanford Political Science Department Chair, 2017-2019

Professional Experience
Deloitte Consulting, Jan 2017 - July 2017
Management Consulting Business Analyst; New York, NY
USAID Young African Leaders Initiative, July 2016 - Dec 2016
Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow; Nairobi, Kenya

Skills, Fieldwork, and Archival Experience

Language: Hindi (basic), Arabic (basic)
Computing: R, Stata, Python, QGIS
Fieldwork: India - Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, Kerala; London, UK
Archival Research: British Library, London, UK (2019)