CV
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Education
Ph.D in Government, Georgetown University, 2025 (expected)
M.P.P. McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, 2023
M.S. in Media and Communication, Middle Tennessee State University, 2023
B.A. in Music, Florida State University, 2014
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Tang, Rongwei, Burnley, Benjamin, Vraga, Emily and Bode, Leticia. 2024. Corrective Democracy? The relationship between correction of misinformation on social media and connective democratic norms. Social Media + Society. (Forthcoming)
Working Papers
Under Review
Advise, Consent, and Tweet?: How Senators Talk About Supreme Court Nominations on Twitter. 2024. Benjamin R. Burnley.
In Preparation
Tweeters and Leaders: How Members without Institutional Power Leverage Twitter to Gain Influence in Congress. Benjamin R. Burnley. (Part of Dissertation Project)
Heading for the “X”-it?: How Congress is Navigating Changes in the Digital Communication Landscape. Benjamin R. Burnley. Presented at MPSA 2024 (Part of Dissertation Project)
Legislative Influencers: Content Creation, Engagement, and Social Media Activity in Congress. Benjamin R. Burnley. Presented at SPSA 2024 (Part of Dissertation Project).
Analyzing 10 Years of Policy Tweets On Twitter (With Annelise Russell)
Between War and Words (With Ana Paula Pellegrino & Laia Balcells)
Honors & Grants
2024 - Summer Research Grant - Georgetown Department of Government
2023 - Collaborative Research Grant with Leticia Bode - Georgetown Department of Government
Best Graduate Student Paper in American Politics, Political Parties, and Elections
2021 - Franco Mattei Award - Northeastern Political Science Association
Social Mediated Democracy: The Role Platforms Play in Political Conversation & Participation
Tennessee Conference of Graduate Schools - Best Master’s Thesis Award
2020 - Modeling the Effects of Social Media Use and Deliberative Behaviors on Voting.
Conferences
American Political Science Association: 2022, 2023, 2024
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science - University of Pennsylvania: 2024
International Conference on Computational Social Science: 2024
Midwest Political Science Association: 2023,2024
Southern Political Science Association: 2024
Northeastern Political Science Association: 2021
Midwest Association of Public Opinion Research: 2018, 2019
Research Experience
Political Science Research and Methods
Editorial and Replication Assistant: 2023-current
Massive Data Institute, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Graduate Research Assistant, 2022 - 2023
Environmental Impact Data Collaborative, Summer Scholar, 2022, 2023
Research Assistant
Laia Balcells - 2024
danah boyd - forthcoming book project - 2021
Teaching Experience
Georgetown University - Teaching Assistant
Quantitative Methods III - Graduate (with Marko Klašnja - Spring 2023)
Quantitative Methods I - Graduate (with Hans Noel Fall 2022)
Introduction to the United States Political System - Undergraduate (with Mark Rom, Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
Middle Tennessee State University - Teaching Assistant
Free Expression and the First Amendment - Undergraduate (with Jason Reineke Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
American Media and Social Institutions - Undergraduate (with Leon Alligood Spring 2019)
Media Law - Undergraduate (Paul McAdoo Fall 2018)
Service
Reviewer Policy Studies Journal
Georgetown Graduate Political Science Association - President, 2022-2024
McCourt School of Public Policy Student Ambassador 2020 - Present
Quantitative Skills
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Causal Inference
R, Python, git, LaTex, SQL, STATA, SPSS, SAS