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Colin Henry is a Research Fellow at the University of Zürich's Department of Political Science, focusing on the intersection of political behavior and digital technology. His work examines how platform governance structures influence extremism in online communities, using computational methods, network analysis, and digital ethnography. He holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University where he developed the Varieties of Platform Governance (VPG) dataset. His research has been published in PS: Political Science & Politics and Journal of Conflict Resolution.
- Education: PhD Candidate in Political Science, Vanderbilt University
- Affiliations: Research on Conflict and Collective Action Lab (Vanderbilt), Data Science for Social Good Fellow (2021)
Key research themes include the architecture of social media platforms, hate speech classification, AI's influence on political behavior, and the structural drivers of online radicalization. His agent-based modeling work explores how platform algorithms and competition dynamics exacerbate political extremism.
His peer-reviewed publications analyze data-security risks for researchers and the impact of violence on journalism in Mexico. Current projects investigate platform intervention strategies against hate communities and the ecological spread of online extremism.
- Grants/Awards: Data Science Institute Fellowship (2021)
- Labs: Led development of netify, an R package for conflict network analysis
Colin co-founded the Vanderbilt Graduate Ideas Symposium, a graduate-student organized conference fostering interdisciplinary dialogue. His work bridges political theory, digital ethics, and computational social science.
