Institution:
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Interests:
Political psychology of identity; ethnicity; immigration and internal migration; gender; political economy and development; public opinion; race and ethnicity; voter behavior; comparative and American politics

Description:
Mashail Malik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University whose research examines how social identities shape political life, with a particular focus on ethnicity, immigration, and internal migration across contexts including Pakistan, Egypt, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her current book project is an interdisciplinary, mixed‑methods study of the rise and fall of ethnic political parties in the megacity of Karachi, Pakistan, building on a dissertation that won both the American Political Science Association’s Urban Politics Section Best Dissertation Award and the Democracy & Autocracy Section Best Fieldwork Award. She received a PhD in political science from Stanford University, an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Beloit College, and she is a native of Islamabad, Pakistan.