Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld
Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Education:
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, San Diego
M.A. in Political Science, University of California, San Diego
B.A. in Anthropology and Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
Areas of Interest:
Computational social science, Protests, Social Networks, Subnational ConflictPhone:
(310) 825-0471Email:
zst@luskin.ucla.eduOffice Location:
6347, Public AffairsRecently in the News
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Professor Steinert-Threlkeld is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. His research seeks to understand protest dynamics using natural language processing, computer vision, and large-scale simulations. He has studied protests around the world, including the Arab Spring, East Asia, and the Americas. His newest work looks at evasion of the Great Firewall in China during COVID-19, signalling on social media during the Syrian civil war, how state violence can make protests smaller or larger, and the effect of social media taxation. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and World Development and received coverage from Al-Jazeera, The Atlantic, Business Insider, The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and WIRED.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from UC San Diego in 2016; a master’s degree in political science from UC San Diego in 2012, and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
