People
Drawing from politics, data science, biology, and sociology, CSMaP is a diverse community of scholars studying the intersection of social media and politics.
Faculty Directors
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Jonathan Nagler
Faculty Director
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Joshua A. Tucker
Faculty Director
Staff
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Cristina de la Puerta
Project Manager & Program Administrator
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Amanda Drucker
Finance & Operations Associate
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Sarah Graham
Research Operations Manager
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Erik Opsal
Communications Director
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Aaron Pope
Research Project Manager
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Zeve Sanderson
Executive Director
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Angie Waller
Research Project Manager
Research Scientists
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Benjamin Guinaudeau
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Felicia Loecherbach
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Sol Messing
Research Associate Professor
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Robert Vidigal
Research Data Scientist
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Hannah Waight
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Patrick Y. Wu
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Wei (Rocio) Zhong
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Engineers
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Ben Boehme
Research Engineer
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Jason Greenfield
Research Engineer
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Edwin Kamau
Research Engineer
Graduate Research Associates
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Zejun Chen
Graduate Research Associate
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Marianna Garcia
Graduate Research Associate
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Rajeshwari Majumdar
Graduate Research Associate
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Kristina Aleksandrovna Pedersen
Graduate Research Associate
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Sylvan Zheng
Graduate Research Associate
Research Affiliates
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Marisa A. Abrajano
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Nejla Ašimović
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate
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Kevin Aslett
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Pablo Barberá
Faculty Research Affiliate
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James Bisbee
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Richard Bonneau
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Megan A. Brown
Graduate Research Affiliate
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Cody L. Buntain
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Andreu Casas
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Gregory Eady
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Patrick J. Egan
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Aaron Erlich
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Andrew M. Guess
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Sean Kates
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Jennifer Larson
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Maggie Macdonald
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Kevin Munger
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Julia Payson
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Sergey Sanovich
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate
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Alexandra A. Siegel
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Lena Song
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Oscar Stuhler
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Denis Stukal
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Cristian Vaccari
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Tiago Ventura
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Steven Lloyd Wilson
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Jan Zilinsky
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate
Collaborators
In addition to our Faculty Research Affiliates, CSMaP research has also involved collaboration with scholars across a range of fields, including:
Nick Beauchamp (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University)
Adam Berinsky (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
William Brady (Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management)
Sandra González-Bailón (Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania)
John T. Jost (Professor, New York University)
Marko Klašnja (Associate Professor, Georgetown University)
Nathaniel Persily (Professor, Stanford Law School)
Margaret E. Roberts (Professor, University of California, San Diego)
Jacob N. Shapiro (Professor, Princeton University)
Yannis Theocharis (Professor, Technical University of Munich)
Jay J. Van Bavel (Associate Professor, New York University)
Magdalena Wojcieszak (Professor, University of California, Davis)
Alumni
As part of our commitment to grow the field of social media research, CSMaP helps place postdocs and students in top academic and industry positions. Here’s a look at our alumni.
Nejla Ašimović (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania)
Kevin Aslett (Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida)
Pablo Barberá (Research Scientist, Facebook; Associate Professor, University of Southern California)
Aengus Bridgman (Assistant Professor, McGill University)
Megan A. Brown (PhD Student, University of Michigan)
James Bisbee (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University)
Cody L. Buntain (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland)
Andreu Casas (Assistant Professor, Vrije Universitet Amsterdam)
Haohan Chen (Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong)
Zhouhan Chen (Founder, Safe Link Network)
Gregory Eady (Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen)
William Godel (Behavioral Economist, Google)
Natasha Gordon (PhD Student, Columbia University)
Andrew M. Guess (Assistant Professor, Princeton University)
Sean Kates (Associate Director of Programs in Data Analytics, University of Pennsylvania)
Nicolas Kugel (Associate, Orbit Partners)
Melanie Langer (Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University)
Niklas Loynes (Data Engineer, Corridor Labs)
Maggie Macdonald (Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky)
Megan MacDuffee Metzger (Senior UX Researcher, Facebook)
Swapneel Mehta (Data Science Intern, Slack)
Kevin Munger (Assistant Professor, Penn State University)
Evgenii Nikitin (Data Scientist, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Tom Paskhalis (Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin)
Stiene Praet (PhD candidate, University of Antwerp)
Sergey Sanovich (Hoover Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University)
Alexandra A. Siegel (Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Lena Song (Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Columbia University)
Joanna Sterling (UX Researcher, Facebook)
Oscar Stuhler (Assistant Professor, Northwestern University)
Denis Stukal (Associate Professor, HSE University)
Zhanna Terechshenko (Threat Researcher, TikTok Inc.)
Tiago Ventura (Assistant Professor, Georgetown University)
Ye Wang (Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Mustafa Mikdat Yildirim (Senior Data Scientist, Etsy)
Jan Zilinsky (Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich)