People
Drawing from politics, data science, biology, and sociology, CSMaP is a diverse community of scholars studying the intersection of social media and politics.
Co-Directors
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Jonathan Nagler
Faculty Co-Director
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Joshua A. Tucker
Faculty Co-Director
Faculty
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Jennifer Allen
Core Faculty (starting 9/1/25)
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Christopher Barrie
Core Faculty
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Sol Messing
Research Associate Professor
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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Lama Mohammed
Tech Policy Fellow
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Erik Opsal
Communications Director
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Zeve Sanderson
Executive Director
Research Scientists
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Benjamin Guinaudeau
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Melina Much
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kylan Rutherford
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Christopher Schwarz
Research Data Scientist
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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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Sylvan Zheng
Graduate Research Associate
Research Affiliates
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Marisa A. Abrajano
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Nejla Ašimović
Faculty 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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Felicia Loecherbach
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Maggie Macdonald
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Rajeshwari Majumdar
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate
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Swapneel Mehta
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate
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Kevin Munger
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Julia Payson
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Kristina Aleksandrovna Pedersen
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate
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Nathaniel Persily
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Aaron Pope
Graduate 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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Hannah Waight
Faculty Research Affiliate
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Patrick Y. Wu
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)
Margaret 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)
Steven Lloyd Wilson (Assistant Professor, Brandeis 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 (Assistant Professor, Georgetown University)
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)
Manan Chawda (Software Engineer, Experian)
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)
Angela Lai (Applied Scientist, Alethea)
Melanie Langer (Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University)
Felicia Loecherbach (Assistant Professor, Amsterdam School of Communication Research)
Niklas Loynes (Data Engineer, Corridor Labs)
Maggie Macdonald (Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky)
Rajeshwari Majumndar (Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University)
Megan MacDuffee Metzger (Senior UX Researcher, Facebook)
Swapneel Mehta (Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Boston University & MIT)
Kevin Munger (Assistant Professor, European University Institute)
Evgenii Nikitin (Data Scientist, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Tom Paskhalis (Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin)
Aaron Pope (PhD Student, University of Copenhagen)
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)
Robert Vidigal (Statistician, Vanderbilt University)
Hannah Waight (Assistant Professor, University of Oregon)
Ye Wang (Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Patrick Wu (Assistant Professor, American University)
Mustafa Mikdat Yildirim (Senior Data Scientist, Etsy)
Jan Zilinsky (Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich)