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Bryce Dietrich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University, serving as Director of the Computational Social Science Lab and a research scholar at the Center for C-SPAN Scholarship and Engagement (CCSE). His research focuses on American Politics and Methodology, leveraging quantitative methods, machine learning, and novel data sources like audio/video analysis to study non-verbal cues (e.g., vocal inflections, walking trajectories) in elite political behavior.
Dr. Dietrich holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Northeastern University. His work has been published in top journals such as Nature, American Political Science Review, and Political Analysis, and has received grants from the NIH and NSF. Media outlets like NPR, BBC, and The Washington Post have covered his research.
Research Highlights:
- Develops automated tools to analyze non-traditional data (e.g., traffic cameras, social media) for insights into voting behavior and public sentiment.
- Explores how vocal patterns and spatial behaviors reflect political dynamics, such as polarization in Congress and racial avoidance in urban spaces.
- Advances computational methods for studying historical political campaigns (e.g., AI-generated transcripts of presidential ads).
Grants & Awards: Supported by NIH and NSF grants; no explicit awards listed.
Labs & Teams: Leads the Computational Social Science Lab, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on projects like CarSenToGram (geovisual text analytics) and C-SPAN archival research.
