Amanda Sahar d'Urso
Program Area(s): American Politics; Experimental Methods; Methods
Regional Specialization(s): United States
Dissertation Title:
In the Shadow of Whiteness: Middle Eastern and North African Identity in the US
Dissertation Committee: James Druckman (chair); Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.; Jason Seawright
Biography: Amanda Sahar d’Urso is a PhD candidate in political science at Northwestern University. She studies American politics with an emphasis on race and ethnic politics. Her dissertation employs a mixed-method approach to detail how Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) have been racialized throughout the 20th and 21st century, despite being legally classified as ‘white’.
Research Interests: Amanda d’Urso studies American politics with an emphasis on race and ethnic politics. Her dissertation employs a mixed-method approach to detail how Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA) have been racialized throughout the 20th and 21st century, despite being legally classified as ‘White’.
Publications:
- Revise and Resubmit:
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “A Boundary of White Inclusion: How Religion Shapes Perceptions of Ethnoracial Assignment.”
- Peer Reviewed Publications:
- Buyuker, B., d’Urso, Amanda Sahar, Filindra A, & Kaplan, N. (2020). “Race Politics Research and the American Presidency: Thinking About White Group Identities and Vote Choice in Trump Era and Beyond”. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
- Buyuker, Beyza, d’Urso, Amanda Sahar, and Filindra, A. (2017) “Interethnic Contact and Impact on Attitudes,” in S. Maisel (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
Honors and Awards:
- APSA Centennial Research Grant with Margret T. Brower, 2022
- Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grantee, 2022
- APSA Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grantee, 2021
- Lucius Barker Award for Best Paper in Race and Ethnic Politics, MPSA, 2021
- Carsey Scholar, APSA State Politics & Policy 2019
- NSF Travel Grant, APSA Political Methodology 2018
- Best Poster, APSA State Politics & Policy 2017
- Lynn Ragsdale Fellowship, U. of IL, Chicago 2016
Selected Invited Talks:
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion and Country of Origin on Ethnoracial Assignment”. Program in Quantitative Social Science: Dartmouth College. (February 2022).
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion and Country of Origin on Ethnoracial Assignment”. Department of Political Science: Stony Brook University. (November 2021).
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion and Country of Origin on Ethnoracial Assignment”. Department of Political Science: The Ohio State University. (November 2021).
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion and Country of Origin on Ethnoracial Assignment”. Minority Politics Online Seminar Series. (August 2021).
Selected Presentations:
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “How Muslim Identity Influences Acceptance of Immigrants”. Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, IL. (April 2022).
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “You MENA I’m Not White? Priming Middle Eastern and North African Identity in America”. Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, IL. (April 2022).
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “Who White People think are White”. Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, IL via Zoom. (April 2021).
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “A Boundary of White Inclusion”. Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, IL via Zoom. (April 2021).
- d'Urso, Amanda Sahar. "Boundaries of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion and Country of Origin on Ethnoracial Assignment". Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium Conference. Arizona State University via Zoom. (January 2021)
- d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. “You MENA I’m Not White? Priming Middle Eastern-American and North African-American Identity”. Winter Experimental Social Science Institute. NYU. Abu Dhabi, UAE. (January 2020).
- Buyuker, Beyza, Amanda Sahar d’Urso, Noah J. Kaplan, and Alexandra Filindra, “Before Trump: White Support for Republican Presidential Candidates in the 21 Century”. American Political Science Association Conference. Washington, DC. (September 2019)."Invited Talks: