Lisa (Yujing) Fan is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford, where she is a member of the Democratic Values and Authoritarian Legitimacy (DEVAL) research project. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from Wellesley College. Her research uses machine learning and natural language processing to study authoritarianism, gender, and political communication, with a focus on how women navigate and advance in authoritarian politics. Her work is supported by the Empirical Study of Gender Network, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the American Political Science Association’s Women, Gender and Politics section.
