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Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Hakeem Jefferson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. Session title and abstract forthcoming.

Hakeem Jefferson is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University where he is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Stanford Center for American Democracy. Jefferson received a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and African American Studies from the University of South Carolina.

Jefferson's research focuses primarily on the role identity plays in structuring political attitudes and behaviors in the U.S. Jefferson is especially interested in understanding how stigma shapes the politics of Black Americans, particularly as it relates to group members’ support for racialized punitive social policies. In other research projects, Jefferson examines the psychological and social roots of the racial divide in Americans’ reactions to officer-involved shootings and work to evaluate the meaningfulness of key political concepts, like ideological identification, among Black Americans.