Christina Walker
Assistant Professor of International Affairs University of Georgia
Christina is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She specializes in comparative politics and methodology, with a research agenda focused on how digital technologies and artificial intelligence shape political information, public trust, and democratic accountability.
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Christina Walker is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia and affiliated with the Benson-Bertsch Center for International Trade & Security and Purdue University’s Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL). She received her PhD in Political Science from Purdue University. She specializes in comparative politics and methodology, with a research agenda focused on how digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) shape political information, public trust, and democratic accountability. Christina examines both how these technologies affect political behavior and develops new computational and experimental methods to study these effects. Specifically, she examines elite strategic communication and information in digital environments, and how citizens process and respond to political content online. Christina also co-founded the Political Deepfakes Incidents Database, working to track AI-generated images and videos that are shared online. Her research has been published in journals such as Social Media and Society, Political Science Research and Methods, The Communication Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, The AAAI Conference Proceedings, and Politics and the Life Sciences.