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Ana Bracic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University and a member of the Minority Politics Initiative. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma from 2014 to 2019. She earned her PhD in Politics from New York University in 2013. Her research focuses on comparative politics, human rights, and social exclusion, particularly among marginalized groups like Roma communities in Central Europe. She employs innovative methods such as lab-in-field experiments and videogame-based data collection.
Dr. Bracic co-founded the Community Engagement + Experiments Lab at OU and served on its faculty advisory board. Her work examines the effectiveness of NGOs, EU policies, and intergroup cooperation strategies. Notably, her monograph Breaking the Exclusion Cycle won the APSA Best Book Award (2020) and received multiple other recognitions.
Her research also explores gender stereotypes' impact on political behavior, nationalism's role in immigration policy, and exclusion cycles in medicine. She emphasizes community engagement to improve research quality and policy relevance. Current projects address discrimination reduction strategies, healthcare disparities, and digital bias in AI systems.
