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People Image Here's the Social Science One commission structure. Like editors-in-chief at scholarly journals, ultimate responsibility for Social Science One decisions falls to the co-chairs, Gary King and Nathaniel Persily, with input from commission members acting like an editorial board. The Peer Review process is chaired by SSRC President Alondra Nelson, who is not a member of Social Science One or its commission. King, Persily, and Nelson work together as a steering committee to coordinate the activities of all the organizations involved in this project.

Commission members provide advice as issues arise in their areas of expertise, and as sounding boards for ideas and communications; those needing access to private Facebook information sign confidentiality agreements. Commission members help Social Science One stay in contact with their academic communities by soliciting and listening for suggestions and ideas, and helping get the word out about Social Science One activities. They may also participate in the SSRC-administered peer review process in review cycles in which they are not applicants. Those who do not sign confidentiality agreements may apply for grants as part of commission activities, as our peer review process includes procedures to manage conflicts of interest. (There may be changes to this list as we continue to evolve.)

Social Science One

Co-Chairs, Social Science One

Gary King

Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, and Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, at Harvard University

Nathaniel Persily

James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford University

Methodology Committees

Research Design Committee

Stefano M. Iacus

Professor of Statistics at the University of Milan, Italy

Nolan McCarty

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Lynn Vavreck

Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA

Privacy and Security Committee

Cynthia Dwork

Chair, Privacy and Security Committee

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Salil Vadhan

Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University

Technical Advisor

Vitaly Shmatikov

Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech

Substantive Committees

Disinformation And Election Integrity Committee

Joshua Tucker

Chair, Disinformation Committee

Professor of Politics at New York University

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon

Associate Professor of Communication, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania

Andy Guess

Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University

David Lazer

Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Alice Marwick

Assistant Professor of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brendan Nyhan

Professor of Government at Dartmouth College

Jennifer Pan

Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University

Emily Thorson

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University

Cristian Vaccari

Reader in Political Communication at the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University

Magdalena Wojcieszak

Associate Professor of Communication at UC Davis

Polarization Committee

Shanto Iyengar

Chair, Polarization Committee

Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

Matthew Gentzkow

Professor of Economics at Stanford University

Leonie Huddy

Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University

Samara Klar

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona’s School of Government and Public Policy

Neil Malhotra

Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Lilliana Mason

Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park

Jaime Settle

Associate Professor in the Government Department at the College of William & Mary

Stefaan Walgrave

Professor of Political Science at the University of Antwerp (Belgium)

Sean Westwood

Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College

Political Advertising Committee

Erika Franklin Fowler

Chair, Political Advertising Advisory Committee

Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University

Michael Franz

Professor of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College

Eitan Hersh

Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University

Young Mie Kim

Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gregory Martin

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emory University

Alessandro Nai

Assistant Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam

Tamara Small

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph

Civic Engagement Committee

Alan Gerber

Chair, Civic Engagement Committee

Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science

Stephen Ansolabhere

Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University

Deen Freelon

Associate Professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Rachel Gibson

Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester

Helen Margetts

Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Jesse Shapiro

George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics at Brown University

Daron Shaw

Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics at University of Texas at Austin

Ebonya Washington

Professor of Economics at Yale University

Regional Advisory Committees

Africa Committee

Chipo Dendere

Chair, Africa Committee

Consortium for Diversity Fellow and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College

Tanja Bosch

Associate Professor in Media Studies and Production at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town

Innocent Chiluwa

Professor in Language (discourse analysis) and Media/Digital Communications in the Department of Languages & General Studies, Covenant University, OTA, (Nigeria)

Bontle Masilo

Lecturer at the University of Botswana, Department of Political and Administrative Studies

Abraham Mulwo

Head of the Department of Communication Studies at Moi University, Kenya

Robert Muthuri

Senior Research Fellow at The Centre for IP and IT (CIPIT) - Strathmore Law School, Kenya

Daniel Opolot

Postdoctoral fellow at the African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management, University of Cape Town

Ada Peter

Professor of Mass Communication, Covenant University, Nigeria

Primus Tazanu

Asia Committee

Ming-Jen Lin

Chair, Asia Committee

Professor of Economics, National Taiwan University

Payal Arora

Associate Professor, Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chun-Fang Chiang

Associate Professor of Economics in National Taiwan University

Francis Lee

Director and Professor at the School of the Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ming Lien

Professor in the Department of Public Finance, National Chen-Chi University

Sora Park

Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Canberra

Dongyoung Sohn

Professor of Communication at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Hiroki Takakawa

Assistant Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Japan

Europe Committee

Claes Holger de Vreese

Chair, Europe Committee

Professor and Chair of Political Communication in The Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam

Marco Bastos

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at City, University of London

Frank Esser

Professor of International & Comparative Media Research at the University of Zurich

Fabio Giglietto

Associate Professor at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo

Sophie Lecheler

Professor of Political Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria

Barbara Pfetsch

Professor of Communication Theory and Media Effects Research at the Department of Media and Communication at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Cornelius Puschmann

Senior Researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg

Rebekah Tromble

Assistant Professor in the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands

Latin America Committee

Sebastián Valenzuela

Chair, Latin America Committee

Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Rosario Aguilar

Associate Professor of Political Science at CIDE in Mexico City

Teresa Correa

Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Literature at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

Victor Manuel Garcia-Perdomo

Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Universidad de La Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia

Daniel Halpern

Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Noam Lupu

Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University

Eugenia Mitchelstein

Assistant Professor at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina)

Carlos Muñiz

Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico

Hernando Rojas

Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marco Ruediger

Director of the Department of Public Policy Analysis at Fundação Getulio Vargas

Magdalena Saldaña

Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Ignacio Siles

Professor in the School of Communication at Universidad de Costa Rica

Salvador Vázquez del Mercado

Research Professor at the National Public Policy Laboratory at CIDE, Mexico City

Elizabeth Zechmeister

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University

North America Committee

Natalie Stroud

Chair, North America Committee

Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin

Rosario Aguilar

Matthew Baum

Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, and Professor of Public Policy, at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

Kelly Garrett

Associate Professor in the School of Communication at the Ohio State University

Daniel Ho

William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford University

Diana Mutz

Diana C. Mutz is Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Poltiical Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

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