Alumni Update: Feyaad Allie '16

Feyaad Allie graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016 with major in Government and minor in Geography. While at Dartmouth, Feyaad served as a research assistant to professors Ben Valentino, Brian Greenhill, and Dirk Vandewalle. He also participated in the Government Foreign Study Program at the London School of Economics where he developed an interest in studying countering violence extremism programs and their impact on Muslim communities in the UK. Feyaad's senior honors thesis used survey experiments and interviews in London to examine this topic.

After Dartmouth, Feyaad spent a year working in international development in Nairobi, Kenya and as a management consultant in New York while he applied to graduate school in political science. Feyaad is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University where he focuses on comparative politics. His dissertation, which he plans to defend next year, focuses on identity politics, the representation of marginalized groups, and intergroup relations in the context of the world's largest democracy, India.     

Feyaad is extremely grateful for his experiences in the Government department (and in the Mellon Mays Program and the Dickey Center for International Understanding). Through these experiences he developed a passion for research and an interest in studying some of the major political questions of today. Feyaad would especially like to thank Government professors Ben Valentino, Brian Greenhill, and Anne Sa'adah for their unwavering support during his time at Dartmouth.