Research Interests
- Social networks
- Authoritarian regimes
- Political elites
- (Dis)information campagnes
- Social media
- China
- Russia.
Curriculum Vitae
Franziska Barbara Keller (PhD 2015, Department of Politics, New York University) is a political scientist investigating the role of social networks in authoritarian regimes and (dis)information campaigns. As an assistant professor at icmb, she will lead a SNSF-financed project on the role of experts and their networks in generating our knowledge about the politics in China and Russia from 2025 until 2030. Before joining the icmb, she was an assistant professor at the Division of Social Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a position she left because of the deteriorating political situation in Hong Kong and China. She has also done PostDocs at Columbia University (2015-16) and UC San Diego (2017-18, financed through an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility grant). Before returning to academia, she has assisted protecting refugees in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, for the UNHCR (2009-10), helped fight human trafficking in the United Arab Emirates with the NGO vivere (2009) and worked as assistant editor for the Chinese-language site of swissinfo.ch (2004-06).
