Margaret Roberts

Margaret (Molly) Roberts is a professor at UC San Diego in the department of political science and at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, in addition to being co-director of the 21st Century China Center’s China Data Lab. Her research interests lie in the intersection of political methodology and the politics of information, specifically focused on censorship and propaganda, digital politics and the use of text analysis in social science. Her work has appeared in publications such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Political Analysis and Science. Her book “Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall” was listed as one of the Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2018, was honored with the Goldsmith Book Award and was given the Best Book Award in the Human Rights Section and Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. She holds the Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair I at UC San Diego.