Dr. Siegel鈥檚 work uses original datasets of hundreds of millions of social media posts, text and network analysis, machine learning methods, and experiments to study mass and elite political behavior in the Arab World and other comparative contexts. Her research explores听drivers听and听mitigators听of intergroup conflict and听intolerance,听consequences of repression, and digital dimensions of conflict鈥攊ncluding the spread of听online hate speech,听extremism, and听disinformation. Her work has been published in the听American Political Science Review.听She is a Research Associate at NYU鈥檚 Social Media and Political Participation Lab and a member of Evidence in Government in Politics (EGAP).听
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Dr. Siegel is a former Junior Fellow听at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former听CASA Fellow听at the American University in Cairo. She completed her PhD in Political Science at New York University in 2018 and holds a Bachelor鈥檚 in International Relations and Arabic from Tufts University. She is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University.听
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