Nejla Asimovic

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. I am currently a non-residential fellow at the Center on Global Democracy at Cornell University and a faculty affiliate at New York University’s Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics (CSMAP). Prior to joining Georgetown, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics.

My research examines intergroup relations, with a focus on how digital technologies and social media shape such relations in deeply divided societies and how to design and assess strategies to bridge existing divides. My work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Comparative Political Studies, Research & Politics, and Political Science Research & Methods. I am a former recipient of the United States Institute of Peace-Minerva Fellowship, the 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Fellowship.

A native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University and a B.A. (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa) in World Politics, with minors in Mathematics and Hispanic Studies, from Hamilton College.