Responding to the events of October 7 and the aftermath in Gaza, ISH has awarded a total of 15 grants to researchers studying the history and alarming rise of antisemitism and Islamophobia in this country and around the world. The Islamophobia research hub is housed in ISH, while the antisemitism hub, which is supported by the Pritzker Foundation, is a collaboration between ISH and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
Research Projects on Islamophobia
Faculty Projects:
Project: Orientalism at Large
Team: Nouri Gana, Comparative Literature
Project: Beyond Salah: Does Exposure to Muslim Celebrities Reduce Islamophobia?
Team: Salma Mousa (PI), Political Science, Ala Alrababah (Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University), Gabor Bekes (Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Business, Central European University), Alexandra Siegel (Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Colorado – Boulder), William Marble (Director of Data Science at the Program for Opinion Research and Election Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
Graduate Student Projects:
Project: Labor, Sea, and Salt: Watering Landscapes in the Little Rann of Kutch
Team: Sita Mamidipudi, Anthropology
Project: Reducing Islamophobic Misperception and Attitudes Through Trust-Enhanced Fact Checks
Team: Je Hoon Che (PI), Department of Communication, Tim Groeling, Professor, Department of Communication
Team: Sabrina Habchi (PI), Political Science, Graham Straus, graduate student, Political Science
Undergraduate Student Projects:
Team: Jeff Tang, History
Research Projects on Antisemitism
Faculty Projects:
Project: Antisemitism and its Absence in the Early Twentieth-Century American Southwest
Team: Eleanor Kaufman, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Project: Tests of an Engineering Perspective of Hatred Towards Jews
Team: Jaimie Krems (PI), Psychology, Daniel Sznycer (Psychology, Oklahoma State University), David Pinsof (Psychology, UCLA)
Project: Sacred Treason: Race, Religion, and the Holocaust in France
Team: Aliza Luft, Professor of Sociology
Graduate Student Projects:
Team: Seul Lee, Information Studies
Team: Marianna Petiaskina (PI), Department of Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, Igor Pilshchikov, Professor, Department of Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
Project: Reducing Anti-Semitic Misperception and Attitudes Through Trust-Enhanced Fact Checks
Team: Je Hoon Chae (PI), Department of Communication, Tim Groeling, Professor, Department of Communication
Mirrored or Combined Studies: Islamophobia and Antisemitism
Graduate Student Projects:
Project: Effect of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the United States
Team: Joshua Goetz, Political Science
Undergraduate Projects:
Project: Stress, Islamophobic/Antisemitic Instagram Posts, and Linked Fate
Team: Ayesha Syed (PI), Psychology, Yarin Hagay Nevel (PI), Psychology, Cecelia Fischer, undergraduate Student, History, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Arabic)