Salma Mousa studies social cohesion and how to build it, typically partnering with governments and NGOs in the Middle East to answer this question. Salma’s research investigates different policy tools to reduce prejudice, build trust, and unlock cooperation across social lines — be they refugees and native-born in Colombia, Muslims and Christians in Iraq, or farmers and herders in Mali.
Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’ political science department, her research has been published in Science and the American Political Science Review, and covered by the Economist, the BBC, and PBS NOVA, among others. Salma is a Faculty Advisory Committee member at the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, a faculty affiliate at UCLA’s Initiative for the Study of Hate and Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab, and an invited researcher at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).
Salma received her PhD from Stanford University’s political science department in 2020. Before arriving at UCLA, Salma was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Salma Mousa studies social cohesion and how to build it, typically partnering with governments and NGOs in the Middle East to answer this question. Salma's research investigates different policy tools to reduce prejudice, build trust, and unlock cooperation across social lines --- be they refugees and native-born in Colombia, Muslims and Christians in Iraq, or farmers and herders in Mali. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles' political science department, her research has been published in Science and the American Political Science Review, and covered by the Economist, the BBC, and PBS NOVA, among others. Salma…