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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

Research Publications

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

d’Urso, Amanda Sahar. 2025. “What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans.” American Political Science Review/

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.” Perspectives on Politics.

d’Urso, Amanda Sahar, Genni Bogdanowicz, & Tabitha Bonilla. (2025). “Best Practice is to Place Sensitive Items Pre-Treatment in an Experiment.” Political Science Research and Methods.

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.

Revise and Resubmit

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

Working Paper

Roman, Marcel, & Amanda Sahar d’Urso. “The X Factor: How Expanding Identity Categories Generates Political Backlash.”

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

Select Grants & Awards

Grants

APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars, 2025
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