Joshua A. Tucker is Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Politics, the Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, and co-Director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics (csmapnyu.org). 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.
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.
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 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
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.