Current Members
Prof. Bruce Bimber
Digital media in collective action; belief in conspiracies and falsehoods; social media and democratic backsliding
Katherine Carmichael
Local politics and community engaged research
Daniel Cervantes
Elites and the flow of political falsehoods
Pierce Christoffersen
News & digital media, public policy, technology & metrics
Deshdeep Dhankhar
Institutions and comparative politics
Prof. Katherine Elder
Health policy and public health
Tina Gruebler
Social media, political affect, content creator culture
Shay Hawkes
Politics, emotions, and social media
Stephanie Herrera
Social media, identity formation, and intergroup relations
Prof. Dan Lane
Social media and political engagement, intergroup relations, and political inequality
Sterling Lankford
Public opinion, selective exposure, and falsehoods
Hyojin Lee
Immigration, humor and satire, and marginalized groups
Prof. Guadalupe "Lupita" Madrigal
Media, Latinx/a/o populations, race, information, social identity, and immigration
Ying Qi Pan
Digital inequality, technology, and gender
Prof. Prateekshit "Kanu" Pandey
Humor and satire in democratic participation, news sharing, and individual political agency
Emerson Scott
Humor as political participation
Yifei Wang
Social identity in social media
Recent Alumni
- Dr. Hannah Overbye-Thompson Michigan State University
- Dr. Nancy Molina-Rogers UCLA
- Dr. Julien Labarre University of Zurich
- Tara Mandrekar Design It For Us
- Dr. Daniel Gomez New Mexico State University
- Dr. Shanshan Lu
- Ilia Nikiforov Independent Consultant
- Dr. Rajkamal Singh New York University