Claire Adida
Claire Adida
- Visiting Scholar, Summer 2016; CDDRL Hewlett Fellow 2008-09 (former)
Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Biography
Claire Adida is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego, as well as a faculty affiliate with the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab (PDEL) and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS). Her research is in comparative politics: more specifically in the study of identity, immigration and inter-group cooperation and conflict.
Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Economics and Politics, the Journal of Population Economics, and Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming work will be presented in the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Economic Inquiry, Annals of Economics and Statistics, and Harvard University Press.
As a CDDRL fellow (2008-09), she worked on her dissertation "Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa," for which she spent twelve months in Ghana, Nigeria, Benin and Niger conducting surveys and interviews with immigrant communities and their host populations. In addition, she pursued a number of ongoing projects, both individual and collaborative, on the strategies that diverse communities employ to access local public goods in Africa, and on the effects of migrant remittances on access to public goods in Mexican municipalities. In March 2009, Claire headed the field experimental team for Professor David Laitin's project on Muslim immigrant integration in France.
Current research projects include understanding how African leaders play the “ethnic card” to garner support from non-coethnics, investigating when and how legislator performance-information affects electoral behavior and explaining U.S. attitudes toward immigration in light of the Ebola crisis.
She received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2010.