Lotem Bassan-Nygate is an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She was previously a postdoctoral research associate at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University and a predoctoral research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. Her research lies at the intersection of international relations, political psychology, and experimental methods. Lotem’s work has appeared in or been accepted into several journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Journal of Experimental Political Science,
Can human-rights organizations avoid accusations of racism when they criticize certain governments? Can they avoid fueling racism? Zoltán I. Búzás and Lotem Bassan-Nygate test the effectiveness of tactics to counter racism when trying to shame perpetrators.