Hannah M. Alarian is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, where she also is a faculty affiliate with the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship and Center for European Studies.
Previously, Dr. Alarian was a Post Doctoral Research Associate in Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. While at Princeton University, she was a member of Betsy Levy Paluck’s lab. She was also a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia where she was an active member of the Power, Violence, and Inequality Collective and Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Working Group as well as teaching courses on topics of Europe, political belonging, citizenship, and migration. Dr. Alarian received her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine where she was also an affiliate with the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD).
Her research examines topics of migrant integration, immigration, political identity and participation, and public policy. Her research broadly examines the processes through which immigrants are included in and excluded from their new societies.
Two of her recent publications, Dual Citizenship Allowance and Migration Flow: An Origin Story (published in Comparative Political Studies) and Citizenship in Hard Times: Intra-EU Naturalisation and the Euro Crisis (published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies), were awarded High Quality Research Awards by the School of Social Sciences and the Department of Political Science at UCI. Her research has been presented at multiple political science conferences including the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Midwestern Political Science Association, and Western Political Science Association.