Roxanne Rahnama

She is an IDEAL Provostial Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, in the Department of Political Science, and an alumni affiliate of the Identities & Ideologies project. She received her Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2024.

Her scholarly interests mainly lie in American political behavior, race and ethnic politics, and gender and politics in both historical and contemporary contexts. Her research primarily examines the conditions under which dominant groups mobilize around ideology and symbolic politics as tools to uphold their status and hierarchy, who the primary agents of these tools are, and their social and political consequences. Her work is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics.

She holds an S.M. in Technology and Policy from MIT and a B.A./B.S. in Economics and Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a researcher in DEC at the World Bank Group. Outside of her academic life, she enjoys running, curating playlists, and am avid enthusiast and dabbler in photography and collage art.