Shelby Grossman

Shelby Grossman, PhD

Research Scholar, Stanford Internet Observatory
CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-17
Encina Hall, C433
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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Research Interests

political economy of development, private governance, market institutions, Sub-Saharan Africa, survey methods

Bio

Shelby Grossman is a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She was previously an assistant professor of political science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Grossman's primary research interests are in comparative politics and sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, World Development, and World Politics. 

Dr. Grossman was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2016-17. She earned her PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2016.
 

Publications

Reporting for Duty: How A Network of Pakistan-Based Accounts Leveraged Mass Reporting to Silence Critics
The Ministry of Made-up Pages: Yemen-Based Actors Impersonate Government Agencies to Spread Anti-Houthi Content
Political Retweet Rings and Compromised Accounts: A Twitter Influence Operation Linked to the Youth Wing of Turkey’s Ruling Party
Blame it on Iran, Qatar, and Turkey: An analysis of a Twitter and Facebook operation linked to Egypt, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia

Topics

Business
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Discrimination
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Entrepreneurship
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Global Health
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Governance
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Health and Medicine
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International Development
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Policy Analysis
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Rule of Law
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State-building