Hanna Sistek
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hanna Sistek is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Departments of History and Political Science at Purdue University, where she conducts research with the Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) and the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL). Her work examines how emerging technologies and the digitization of the public sphere shape political communication and the quality of democratic governance in the Western world, with a particular focus on the political use of false and biased information.
Hanna Sistek is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Departments of History and Political Science at Purdue University, where she conducts research with the Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) and the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL). Her work examines how emerging technologies and the digitization of the public sphere shape political communication and the quality of democratic governance in the Western world, with a particular focus on the political use of false and biased information. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Information Literacy.
Before graduate school, Hanna worked as an international journalist, reporting from 19 countries across five continents on topics ranging from green technologies to terrorism, for more than 100 different publications. In 2008, she was an Innovation Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Purdue University, a Journalism degree from Gothenburg University, and a B.S. in Physical Therapy from Lund University. Born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Sweden, she brings an international perspective to her research on democracy and political communication.