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Joshua A. Tucker Wilf Family Department of Politics 212-998-7598 19 West 4th Street, Rm. 430 joshua.tucker @ nyu.edu New York, N.Y. 10012 Twitter: @j_a_tucker www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/ https://wp.nyu.edu/fas-joshuatucker/ https://wp.nyu.edu/smapp/ Orcid ID: 0000-0003-1321-8650 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT New York University, New York, NY Director, Jordan Family Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, 2016-present. Co-Director, NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab, 2012-present. Professor of Politics, 2011 – present. Affiliate Professor of Data Science, 2016- present. Affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, 2011 – present. Associate Professor of Politics, 2006 – 2011. Affiliated Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, 2007– 2011. Affiliated Associate Professor of Politics, NYU-Abu Dhabi, 2010 – 2011. Princeton University, Princeton NJ Ralph O. Glendinning University Preceptor, July 2005 – August 2006. Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, February 2001 – August 2006. Instructor of Politics and International Affairs, July 2000 – January 2001. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS Editorial, Executive, and Advisory Boards: American National Election Study (2015-2018), Post-Soviet Affairs (2016-19) Journal of Politics (2015-2018), Political Behavior (2015-2018), East European Quarterly (2015- present), Electoral Studies (2004 – present), Midwest Political Science Association (Vice-President, 2012-15), Association for the Study of East European and Eurasian Societies (2011- 14), European Parliament 2014 Elections Voting Advice Application Project (2013-14), Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (NYU, 2013-present), Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (Princeton, 2001-2003). 2016. Visiting Professor, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. 2016. Excellent Achievement in Online International Studies (“Duckie”) Award: Best Group Blog awarded to “The Monkey Cage” by Online Media Caucus of International Studies Association and Sage Press. 2015. Top 10 Best Articles in Digital News and Social Media from Harvard University’s Nieman Labs for “Tweeting from Left to Right: Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber?” 2015. Online Achievement in International Studies (“Duckie”) Award: Best Group Blog awarded to “The Monkey Cage” by Duck of Minerva Blog and Sage Press. 2014. Awarded NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study grant for “Social Media and Political Participation: Global Initiative." Principal Investigator. $757,142. 2012. Awarded one of inaugural National Science Foundation INSPIRE grants for project on “Computer Learning of Dynamical Systems to Investigate Cognitive and Motivational Effects of Social Media Use on Political Participation”, Co-PI. $999,997. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS (continued) 2012. Selected as founding co-Editor of Journal of Experimental Political Science, with Rebecca Morton, term through 2015. 2012. Top 25 Blogs of 2012. Awarded by Time Magazine to “The Monkey Cage”. 2011. Golden Dozen Teaching Award. Awarded to the top 12 teachers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University. 2011. Blog of the Year. Awarded by The Week magazine to “The Monkey Cage”. 2010. Visiting Professor. Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain. 2006. Emerging Scholar Award, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association, for the top scholar in the field within 10 years of the doctorate. 2005. Ralph O. Glendinning University Preceptor, Princeton University, 2005- 2008. Competitive position awarded to junior faculty providing leave and research fund (Declined last two years). 2003. National Election Studies Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan. 2003. Center of International Studies Junior Faculty Fellowship, Princeton University. 2001. Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize, Harvard University. 1999. Westview Press Award, Mid-West Political Science Association, 1999, for the best paper by a graduate student presented at the 1998 MPSA Annual Conference (co-authored with Ted Brader). 1997. Bok Center Certificates of Distinction (2), Harvard University, for excellence in teaching. 1993. Harvard College Commencement Address, Harvard University. BOOKS 2017. Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes (with Grigore Pop- Eleches), Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006. Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-1999, New York: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics; Comparative Political Studies; The Journal of Politics; Foreign Affairs; Slavic Review; The Russia Review; Canadian Journal of Politics; Journal of Regional Science; Central East European Reviews Tucker -2- EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science, November 2000. Winner of Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize. Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland Intensive Polish Language Certificate, July 1996. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England M.I.S.(Master of International Studies), December 1994. Winner of Graduate School of International Studies Prize. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA B.A. magna cum laude in Social Studies and phi beta kappa, June 1993. Winner of Thomas Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Research. REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Forthcoming. “Turning the Virtual Tables: Government Strategies for Addressing Online Opposition with an Application to Russia.”, with Sergey Sanovich and Denis Stukal. Comparative Politics (conditional acceptance) Forthcoming. “Tumultuous Technology”, with Pablo Barberá, Margaret Roberts, and Yannis Theocharis, The Journal of Democracy (invited submission). Forthcoming. “Elites Tweet to Get the Feet of the Streets: Measuring Regime Response to Protest Using Social Media”, with Kevin Munger, Richard Bonneau, and Jonathan Nagler, Political Science Research and Methods. Forthcoming. “Political Corruption Traps”, with Marko Klašnja and Andrew Little, Political Science Research and Methods. Forthcoming. “The Islamic State’s Information Warfare: Measuring the Success of ISIS’ Online Strategy”, with Alexandra Siegel. Journal of Language and Politics. Forthcoming. “Digital Dissent: Informational and Motivational Pathways to Political Protests Through Social Media”, with John T. Jost, Pablo Barberá, Richard Bonneau, Megan MacDuffee Metzger, Jonathan Nagler, and Joanna Sterling, Advances in Political Psychology. Forthcoming. “Liberal and Conservative Values: What We Can Learn from Congressional Tweets", with Kevin Jones, Sharareh Noorbaloochi, John T. Jost, Richard Bonneau, and Jonathan Nagler, Political Psychology. Available on First View: doi: 10.1111/pops.12415. 2017. “Moral Contagion: How Emotion Shapes Diffusion of Moral Content in Social Networks”, with William Brady, Julian Willis, John T. Jost, and Jay Van Bavel, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Available Early Online: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/28/7313.abstract. 2017. “Digital Media and EuroMaidan: A Review Essay”, with Megan Metzger, Slavic Review 76(1): 169-91. 2016. “Crowded Space, Fertile Ground: A Model of Party Entry with Macro- and Micro-Level Evidence” with Dan Kselman and Eleanor Powell, Political Science Research and Methods. 4(2): 317-342. 2016. “Of Echo Chambers and Contrarian Clubs: Exposure to political disagreement among German and Italian users of Twitter”, with Cristian Vaccari, Augusto Valeriani, Pablo Barberá, Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, and Jonathan Nagler, Social Media and Society. 2(3):1-24. Tucker -3- REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES (continued) 2016. “Tweeting Identity? Ukrainian, Russian and #EuroMaidan”, with Megan Metzger, Jonathan Nagler, and Richard Bonneau, Journal of Comparative Economics. 44(1): 16-40. 2016. “Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting,” with Marko Klašnja and Kevin Deegan-Krause, British Journal of Political Science. 46(1): 67-94. 2015. “The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests”, with Pablo Barberá, Ning Wang, Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, Jonathan Nagler and Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, PLOS One, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0143611. 2015. “Tweeting from Left to Right: Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber?” with Pablo Barberá, John Jost, and Jonathan Nagler, and Richard Bonneau, Psychological Science. 26(10): 1531-1542. - Named a Top 10 Article of 2015 on Digital News and Social Media by Nieman Labs at Harvard University 2015. “Elections, Protest, and Alternation of Power”, with Andrew Little and Tom LaGatta, The Journal of Politics. 77(4): 1142-1156. 2015, “Political Expression and Action on Social Media: Exploring the Relationship between Lower- and Higher-Threshold Political Activities among Twitter Users in Italy”, with Cristian Vaccari, Augusto Valeriani, Pablo Barberá, Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, and Jonathan Nagler, Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication. 20 (2): 221–239. DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12108. 2015. “Comparative Opportunities: The Evolving Study of Political Behavior of in Eastern Europe” East European Politics and Society. 29(2): 420-432. 2014. “Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post-Communist Countries: New Data, New Results, and New Approaches”, with Eleanor Powell, British Journal of Political Science. 44(1): 123-147. 2014. “Cross Pressure Scores: A New Measure for an Old Concept”, with Ted Brader and Andrew Therriault, Political Behavior. 36(1): 23-51. 2014. “Communist