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Tyler Girard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University, where he also serves as core faculty in the Governance and Responsible AI Lab. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario in 2021, receiving recognition for his dissertation and was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. His research focuses on the political economy of digital technologies and technological change, particularly the promotion of global norms and agendas, alongside methodological issues in measurement and scaling. Girard is currently working on a book project that analyzes how ideas evolve into global agendas, with a specific emphasis on the global financial inclusion agenda and the participatory construction of ambiguity in transnational communities. His work has been published or is forthcoming in various academic journals including the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of International Development, and Critical Policy Studies.
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