Joshua A. Tucker

Faculty Co-Director  ·   joshua.tucker@nyu.edu

Joshua A. Tucker is Julius Silver Professor, Director of the Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, Co-Director of the Center for Social Media and Politics (csmapnyu.org), Professor of Politics, affiliated Professor of Data Science, and affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University.

His research originally examined mass political behavior in post-communist countries, but for the past dozen years he has focused on the intersection of the digital information environment, social media, and politics. 

An internationally recognized scholar, he has been a keynote speaker for conferences in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Brazil, the Netherlands, and the United States, and has given over 250 invited research presentations at top domestic and international universities and research centers.

His research has been published in top general scientific journals, including Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics. His most recent books are the co-authored Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes (Princeton University Press, 2017) and the co-edited Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field and Prospects for Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2020).  

He is the co-chair of the external academic team for the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study, serves on the advisory board of the American National Election Study, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and numerous academic journals, and was the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science. He also served for over a decade as a co-author and co-editor of the political and policy blog The Monkey Cage that was hosted for part of that time at The Washington Post, and is currently a contributor to the Brookings Institute’s “Economics of AI” series.

In 2024, he was included in Clarivate’s 1% Top Cited List for the top cited researchers globally by field.

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