About Us
The Identities & Ideologies Project (I&I) is a community of social science faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students at New York University conducting research about identity, ideology, and their intersection. Project affiliates come from a range of home disciplines, including political science, sociology, economics, psychology, and public policy, and they conduct research both in the United States and in various regions around the world.
I&I affiliates convene to share and give feedback on research ideas; to learn from cutting-edge research presented by visiting speakers; and to mentor students interested in gaining exposure to and experience in the research process. The group holds regular internal and external events.
Areas of inquiry for I&I affiliates include:
How does the heightened salience of racial, ethnic, class and religious identities reinforce and reflect ideological polarization in U.S. politics?
How has religious fundamentalism shaped political and social behavior around the world?
What drives the strength of attachments to national and ethnic identities, and to what extent do those attachments explain the current resurgence of populism in so many countries at the same time?
How do identity attachments shape citizens’ evaluations of public policies and the coherence of those evaluations?
Under what conditions do people conceptualize and mobilize around gender and sexual identities, and with what consequences?
How do people’s groups affect the ideas they espouse about politics, and how do people’s political ideas shape their group identities--and with what political, economic and social consequences?