Reed Rasband

Reed Rasband is a Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University, specializing in comparative politics and the intersection of migration, identity politics, and intergroup relations. His research explores how immigration impacts political attitudes and social dynamics in host societies, with regional expertise in Latin America and Europe.

His methodological toolkit spans survey data, interviews, and experiments, informed by fieldwork in Brazil, Colombia, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. At Harvard, he serves as the Pedagogy Fellow and is affiliated with the Working Group in Political Psychology and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

Rasband holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University and completed his Ph.D. in November 2024. His dissertation investigates how new migration flows reshape citizen–immigrant relations in Chile, Brazil, and Europe, while his job market paper Taking the Heat: How Salient New Immigrant Groups Redirect Xenophobic Public Opinion presents novel findings on the dynamics of xenophobic attitudes in response to shifting immigrant demographics.

Current research examines identity politics and public opinion through the lens of migration, focusing on the psychological and social mechanisms that mediate intergroup conflict and cooperation. His work contributes to broader debates in political psychology and comparative political behavior.