Reed Rasband

Reed Rasband
Ph.D. Student in Government

Reed Rasband is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard’s Department of Government, studying comparative politics. He studies identity politics, public opinion and intergroup relations in the Global South, with an emphasis on migration within Latin America. His work incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, including survey data, interviews, and experiments. His dissertation investigates how Venezuelan migration has influenced relations between citizens and migrants in Chile and Brazil. He has also carried out research in Colombia, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.

He is a member of Harvard’s Working Group in Political Psychology and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University. His expected Ph.D. completion date is June 2024.


Contact
rasband@g.harvard.edu
My Website

1737 Cambridge Street


Subfields
Comparative Politics

Academic Interests
Migration | Identity Politics | Political Psychology | Race & Ethnicity | Intergroup Relations

Research Methods
Experiments | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods | Surveys

Geographic Regions of Study
Latin America | Europe