Appointments

Georgetown University
Assistant Professor, 2023 - Present
Provost Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Department of Government

Dartmouth College
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022 - 2023
Provost’s Fellowship Program
Department of Government
Program in Quantitative Social Science

Education

Northwestern University
Ph.D., Political Science, 2022
M.S., Statistics, 2022
M.A., Political Science, 2019

University of Illinois, Chicago
M.A., Political Science, 2017

The University of Virginia
B.A., Political Science, 2013

academic Publications

Peer-Reviewed
d’Urso, Amanda Sahar and Tabitha Bonilla. (2023). “The Role of Muslim Identity on Evaluations of Belonging in the US”. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. (2022). “A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion in Ethnoracial Assignment.” Perspectives on Politics.

Buyuker, Beyza, d’Urso, Amanda Sahar, Filindra Alexandra, & Noah Kaplan. (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, & Alexandra Filindra. (2017). “Interethnic Contact and Impact on Attitudes,” in S. Maisel (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press

Revise & Resubmit
d’Urso, Amanda Sahar, Genni Bogdanowicz, & Tabitha Bonilla. “Best Practice is to Place Sensitive Items Pre-Treatment in an Experiment.”

Nelsen, Matthew D., Newton, Monique, & Amanda Sahar d’Urso. “Forty Acres and a Mule: Race, Public Opinion, and the Pursuit for Black Reparations in the United States.”

Gómez, Gabriel, d’Urso, Amanda Sahar, & Mike Cowburn. “Hispanic Support for Donald Trump: In-Group Favoritism or Out-Group Animus?”

Wozniak-Jechorek, Beata, d’Urso, Amanda Sahar, & Chloe Thurston. “Remote Work Preferences of American Employees: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment.”

Selected Grants & Awards

Grants
APSA Centennial Center Research Grant with Margaret T. Brower, 2022
Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant, 2022
APSA Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2021

Awards
Honorable Mentions, Best Dissertation in Political Psychology, APSA, 2023
Lucius Barker Award Best Paper in Race & Ethnic Politics, MPSA, 2021

Skills

Computational
R/R Studio (expert); LaTeX/Overleaf (intermediate); Javascript (advance); NetLogo for Agent/Complexity-Based Modeling (intermediate); Qualtrics (expert); Microsoft Office Suite; STATA (intermediate); HTML (beginner)

Languages
English (Native)
Persian/Farsi: Heritage speaker, fluent reading, and writing
Japanese: Limited working proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing

Consulting

The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement
Data Analyst, 2023-2024

Northwestern University
Research Computing Services Consultant, 2021-2022