Assistant Professor
Christina Walker is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs. 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. She examines both how these technologies affect political behavior and develops new computational and experimental methods to study these effects. On the substantive side, she examines elite strategic communication and information in digital environments, and how citizens process and respond to political content online.
Her research has been published in journals such as Political Science Research and Methods, The Communication Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, The AAAI Conference Proceedings, and Politics and the Life Sciences.
She received her Ph.D. In Political Science from Purdue University in 2026, a M.A. at Purdue University in 2023, and a B.A. in International Relations and French Language & Literature at Oakland University. Previously, she worked in the Michigan State Senate and with USAID and the State Department.
