Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition. Her research and training span a variety of disciplines, including political science, philosophy, economics, and psychology. She is currently working on a book entitled Securing Identity: The Case for Human Oneness, which explores how a reimagined universalism can fundamentally resolve the social and philosophical tensions around collective identity, and the surging identity politics to which they give rise. Dr. Sabet has held positions at Princeton University, the University of Maryland, and Harvard University, where she received her PhD, and her work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times and the Washington Post.