Overview
Md Mujahedul Islam (Mujahed) is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Cornell University, where he works with Peter K. Enns. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2024, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship there focusing on comparative politics and comparative public policy. He also holds a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School in Berlin.
His research offers a framework for understanding the moral foundations of democratic stability, showing how voters with non-mainstream or contested moral views evaluate political leaders and democratic institutions in ways that can undermine support for democracy. He also studies the roles of trust, local context, and emerging technologies in political participation and representation. His broader agenda integrates insights from moral psychology with the study of democratic backsliding and comparative political behaviour.
Across his projects, he uses surveys, experiments, and computational text methods to examine how citizens engage with politics in a changing moral, social, and technological context. His work has been published in the Journal of European Social Policy and the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and he currently has several manuscripts under revise-and-resubmit or review at leading journals.
He is also a committed teacher and has taught courses in comparative politics, public policy, and quantitative research methods. More information about his research and teaching is available at www.mdmujahedulislam.com.