Welcome
Affiliates of the MIT Global Diversity Lab study the relationship between human diversity, development, and dignity in the United States and around the world. Our research aims to inform scholarship, policy and practice; and we seek to train future leaders and scholars through teaching, advising, and global outreach. Our work is motivated by the observation that increasingly diverse societies face both great challenges and opportunities:
On the one hand, real and perceived differences of ethnicity, race, religion, and national origin continue to be the basis for bias, discrimination, and conflict. Ethnic minorities, immigrants, and refugees face hate speech, political exclusion, and violence.
On the other hand, some of the world’s most productive organizations and societies identify diversity as core to their success. The mixing of people from around the world – and the sharing of art, culture, and ideas — is the hallmark of the world’s most prosperous urban centers.
Ultimately, in the face of diversity, different answers to the question of “who is us” will affect global responses to the world’s most pressing problems, including the climate emergency, epidemic threat, poverty, and insecurity.
At the MIT Global Diversity Lab, we intend to distill lessons about how to harness the value of diversity and to mitigate conflict through careful social science research, informed by work in a range of disciplines.
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The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment
GDL Director Evan Lieberman and graduate alum Paige Bollen, together with coauthors Will Kymlicka and Blair Read, recently published an…
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Congratulations to Sukrit Puri
Please join the Global Diversity Lab in congratulating our graduate fellow Sukrit Puri on his new position as Assistant Professor…
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Studying Co-Ethnic Voting
This week, GDL hosted Professor Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), who presented a working paper titled “Co-ethnics Co-vote in Africa: Studying Electoral…
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Global Solidarity Scorecard
This week, GDL hosted a virtual talk with Hassan Damluji, the Director and Co-Founder of Global Nation. Hassan discussed the…
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How information
about historic
carbon emissions
affects support
for climate aidGlobal Diversity Lab affiliates Volha Charnysh, Jared Kalow, Evan Lieberman, and Erin Walk’s new article in Climatic Change looks at…
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Celebrating
Professor
Volha Charnysh’s
book publicationGDL faculty and graduate affiliates gathered for our end-of-semester lunch to celebrate the publication of GDL faculty affiliate Volha Charnysh’s…
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Exposure to Chinese Students and Attitudes towards China
This week, GDL hosted Professor Melissa Sands (LSE) for a presentation of her project “Cultural Exchange or Cultural Clash? Exposure to Chinese…
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Political Apathy
as Autocratization
StrategyThe Global Diversity Lab was honored to host Professor Laura Jákli (Harvard Business School) earlier this month for an engaging presentation and discussion…
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Global Solidarity
Report 2024Global Diversity Lab Director Evan Lieberman was a contributor to the Global Solidarity Report 2024, which was released last month. The…
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GDL Summer Interns
This summer, the Global Diversity Lab hosted our second cohort of Pathways to Political Science summer research interns! The cohort…
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GDL Internship
Alumni:
Post-Graduation
Achievements and
Future PlansAs GDL begins the second year of our Pathways to Political Science internship program, we caught up with internship alumni…
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GDL Visiting
PresentersThe Global Diversity Lab was honored to host two external presenters last month, Professor Soledad Prillaman (Stanford University) and Professor…