Emily Van Duyn

Emily Van Duyn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Van Duyn earned her PhD in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with the Program on Democracy and the Internet from 2019-2020.

Her work is concerned with if and how people communicate about and engage with politics in contentious contexts and the implications these experiences have for the health of contemporary democracy. She tackles these questions using diverse methodologies, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and ethnography.