About Me

Hello there! My name is Muna Adem and I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. 

My research is motivated by two interconnected questions: How does immigration-driven diversity shape intergroup relations, group divisions, and social cohesion? And how do societies marked by deep racial, ethnic, and political divisions create possibilities for cooperation, solidarity, and belonging? As a sociologist studying immigration and group boundaries, I approach these questions through multiple empirical methods, from analyzing advocacy organizations’ political activities to conducting behavioral experiments on cooperation.

My research has been published in Social Forces,  Social Psychology Quarterly, Emerging Adulthood, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and Royal Society Open Science. My current and ongoing project has also been supported by the University of Maryland, the International Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, the Graduate and Professional Student Government Research Award and the Sociology department at Indiana University.

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