Margaret E. Roberts

Margaret (Molly) Roberts is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her research branches the intersection of political methodology and the politics of information, with a specific focus on methods of automated content analysis and the politics of censorship in China. She received a Ph.D. from Harvard in Government (2014), M.S. in Statistics from Stanford (2009), and B.A. in International Relations and Economics (2009). Her forthcoming book, Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall, explores the impact of censorship on information access among Chinese citizens. Her work has appeared in venues such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, and Science.