Claire Adida

{{short description|French political scientist}}

Claire Adida is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.{{Cite web|title=Claire Adida|url=https://pdel.ucsd.edu/people/research-affiliates/claire-adida.html|access-date=2020-12-01|website=pdel.ucsd.edu|language=en-US}} She is also a faculty affiliate at the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab, the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab, and the Evidence in Governance and Politics Group.{{Cite web |title=Claire L. Adida |url=https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/adida-profile.html |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=polisci.ucsd.edu}} She is on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review.{{Cite web|title=Editorial board|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/information/editorial-board|access-date=2020-12-01|website=Cambridge Core|language=en}} She is known for research on comparative ethnic policies focusing on identity, immigration and integration, inter-group cooperation and conflict, as well as the use of survey experiments.{{Cite journal|last=Verdier|first=Thierry|date=2019|title=Review Essay on Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort|journal=Journal of Economic Literature|language=en|volume=57|issue=1|pages=96–119|doi=10.1257/jel.20171415|s2cid=150831299 |issn=0022-0515|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Schneider|first=Cathy Lisa|date=2016|title=Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies. Edited by Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 264 pp., $45.00 (cloth).|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/why-muslim-integration-fails-in-christianheritage-societies-edited-by-claire-l-adida-david-d-laitin-and-marieanne-valfort-cambridge-harvard-university-press-2016-264-pp-4500-cloth/1AB9E57F3E07C59FD20901440F4B80C5|journal=Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics|language=en|volume=1|issue=2|pages=353–355|doi=10.1017/rep.2016.12|issn=2056-6085}}{{Cite news|date=2015|title=Here is what social science can tell us about the terrorist attacks in Paris|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/15/here-is-what-social-science-can-tell-us-about-the-terrorist-attacks-in-paris/}}{{Cite news|date=2015|title=Can mostly Christian countries integrate Muslims? This new book shows what must be done.|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/25/can-france-and-other-mostly-christian-societies-integrate-its-muslims-this-new-book-shows-what-must-be-done/}} She has a PhD in political science from Stanford University. Her research projects have covered how voters in West Africa hold politicians accountable; the experience of Somalis who immigrate to the United States, how to increase inclusionary attitudes towards Syrian refugees, among other topics.

Her partner is Jennifer Burney, Associate Professor and the Marshall Saunders Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Global Climate Policy and Research at the University of California, San Diego.{{Cite web|title=Burney Receives 2017 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award|url=https://honors.agu.org/sfg-awardees/burney-campbell-gentine-and-lin-receive-2017-global-environmental-change-early-career-award/burney-receives-2017-global-environmental-change-early-career-award/|access-date=2021-02-06|website=Honors Program|language=en-US}} They have two children.