Rajeshwari Majumdar

Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs

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Media and Public Affairs Building 805 21st Street, NW Washington DC 20052

Rajeshwari Majumdar is an Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs. Her research focuses on political communication, intergroup relations, ethnic nationalism, social media, experimental methods, and Indian politics.

Dr. Majumdar’s work has been published in Political Behavior and The Journal of Politics. Her research has also appeared in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Hindustan Times, and VoxDev. She has received multiple awards for her research, including the Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award, the Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper in Political Communication Award, the Best Paper in Information Technology & Politics Award, the Best Paper in Experimental Research Award, and the Distinguished Junior Scholar in Political Psychology Award.

Before joining GW, Dr. Majumdar was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, affiliated with the Identity & Conflict Lab in The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. She received her doctorate in political science from New York University.

View Dr. Majumdar’s CV here.

Classes

SMPA 2151 Research Methods

Education

Ph.D., New York University, 2024
B.A., University of Connecticut, 2018

Publications

Journal Articles

Tiago Ventura, Rajeshwari Majumdar, Joshua A. Tucker, and Jonathan Nagler. 2025. “Misinformation Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from a WhatsApp Deactivation Experiment in Brazil.” The Journal of Politics.

Rajeshwari Majumdar. 2024. “Partisan Identity, Counter-Attitudinal Information, and Selective Criticism in India.” Political Behavior 46(3): 1443–1465.

Nicole Janz, James Allen-Robertson, Rajeshwari Majumdar, and Shareen Hertel. 2021. “Big Data on BHR: Innovative Approaches to Analyzing the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Database.” Business and Human Rights Journal 6(1): 120–126.

Other Publications

Tiago Ventura, Rajeshwari Majumdar, Joshua A. Tucker, and Jonathan Nagler. 2024. “Reducing exposure to misinformation: Evidence from WhatsApp in Brazil.” VoxDev.

Nicholas Haas and Rajeshwari Majumdar. 2023. “How Ideology Shapes Indian Politics.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Re-printed in The Hindustan Times.

Shareen Hertel and Rajeshwari Majumdar. 2018. “Social Movements, Development Policy, and Human Rights.” In Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary World Affairs (ed. Mahmood Monshipouri). New York: Routledge.

Expertise

political communication
intergroup relations
ethnic nationalism
social media
experimental methods
Indian Politics