Muna Adem

Assistant Professor

Subfields

Global/Transnational Sociology and International Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Psychology

Profile

Muna Adem is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Adem's research lies at the intersection of race, ethnicity, and immigration. She is interested in examining how ethnoracial demographic changes and immigration-driven diversity influence race relations, group divisions and ethnoracial inequalities, both in the US and Europe. Her current projects examine (1) the ways in which race and immigration status shapes (mis)trust and cooperation at the micro level, (2) the ways in which organizations and elite actors contribute to the (in)stability of ethnoracial and stratification systems, (3) attitudes toward citizenship ideologies, national and ethnoracial identities in the US and Europe, and (4) perceived discrimination, anti-Black distancing and incorporation of immigrant groups. To answer her research questions, Dr. Adem employs several strategies, including survey experiments and behavioral experiments, network and text analysis and mixed methods.