Tyler Girard

Tyler Girard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. Girard’s research primarily explores the political economy of digital technologies and technological change. In addition, his work also examines the promotion of global norms or agendas and methodological issues of measurement and scaling. In his book (Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda, Stanford University Press), he explains the origins and evolution of the global financial inclusion agenda and develops the theoretical concept of “participatory ambiguity” to advance scholarship on the dynamic relationship between global agendas and transnational communities. His work is published or forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, and the Review of International Political Economy, among others. His public-facing work is available in Policy Options, Good Authority, and The Conversation.