Claire Adida is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Adida’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. She earned her B.A. in Political Science and Communication Studies from Northwestern University, M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Professor Adida researches comparative ethnic politics and immigrant exclusion, particularly with respect to Muslim immigrants in Europe.

Representative Publications

Adida, Claire L. “Do African voters favor coethnics? Evidence from a survey experiment in Benin.” Journal of Experimental Political Science2.01 (2015): 1-11.

Adida, Claire L., David D. Laitin, and Marie-Anne Valfort. “How do Muslims qua Muslims integrate in the US?.” Economics Bulletin 35.4 (2015): 2750-2767.

Adida, Claire L., David D. Laitin, and Marie‐Anne Valfort. “Religious Homophily in a Secular Country: Evidence from a Voting Game in France.” Economic Inquiry 53.2 (2015): 1187-1206.