Shelby Grossman

shelby grossman

Shelby Grossman, PhD

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

Biography

Shelby Grossman is a research scholar at the Cyber Policy Center. Her research focuses on online safety. Shelby's research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PNAS Nexus, Political Communication, The Journal of Politics, World Development, and World Politics. Her book, "The Politics of Order in Informal Markets," was published by Cambridge University Press. She is co-editor of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, and teaches classes at Stanford on open source investigation and online trust and safety issues. 

Shelby was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Memphis from 2017-2019, and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2016-17. She earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2016.

publications

White Papers
April 2021

Self-harm Policies and Internet Platforms

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White Papers
January 2021

Contours and Controversies of Parler

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White Papers
November 2019

Potemkin Pages & Personas: Assessing GRU Online Operations, 2014-2019

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In The News

U.S. Marshals work with the NCMEC during Operation We Will Find You, in 2023 (U.S. Marshals Service photo by Bennie J. Davis III, https://www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/52917723748/; CC BY 2.0 DEED, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
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Challenges in the Online Child Safety Ecosystem

How to improve the system for reporting child sex abuse material online. Originally published in Lawfare.
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collage of photos including group shot of SIO staff and of the Stanford Dish
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The Stanford Internet Observatory Turns Three

SIO releases its annual report summarizing its first three years of research, teaching and policy and laying the path for the years to come.
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Some of the original Ukrainian alumni from the Draper Hills Summer Fellowship gather in Kyiv in 2013.
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A History of Unity: A Look at FSI’s Special Relationship with Ukraine

Since 2005, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies has cultivated rich academic ties and friendships with Ukrainian scholars and civic leaders as part of our mission to support democracy and development domestically and abroad.
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