Dr. Bryce Dietrich

Biography

Bryce Dietrich is an Associate Professor at Purdue University's College of Liberal Arts in the Department of Political Science. He directs the Computational Social Science Lab and is a research scholar at the Center for C-SPAN Scholarship Engagement. His research focuses on American politics and methodology, utilizing novel quantitative, automated, and machine learning methods to analyze non-traditional data sources, including audio and video data. He examines the causes and consequences of non-verbal cues, vocal inflections, and walking trajectories, particularly in relation to elite political behavior. His work has been published in prestigious journals such as Nature, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Political Psychology. Professor Dietrich has received grants from significant organizations including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. His research has also been featured in popular media outlets such as NPR, BBC, The Economist, The Washington Post, and FiveThirtyEight. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard's Kennedy School and Northeastern University.

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