Sumitra Badrinathan is an Assistant Professor in the department of Politics, Governance, and Economics at American University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines misinformation, media, and politics, with a regional focus on South Asia. Her work spans three substantive areas: (1) Countering misinformation: How can we make citizens more resilient to falsehoods? (2) Accountability for misinformation: How do we hold elites responsible for spreading false information?; and (3) Impacts of misinformation: What are the political and societal consequences of misinformation on violence, prejudice, and quality of democracy? Methodologically, she relies on field experiments, original surveys, and primary data collection. Her work has has been published in academic journals such as the American Political Science Review and PS: Political Science and Politics as well as popular press such as The Washington Post. She holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
Sumitra Badrinathan is an Assistant Professor in the department of Politics, Governance, and Economics at American University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines misinformation, media, and politics, with a regional focus on South Asia. Her work spans three substantive areas: (1) Countering misinformation: How can we make citizens more resilient to falsehoods? (2) Accountability for misinformation: How do we hold elites responsible for spreading false information?; and (3) Impacts of misinformation: What are the political and societal consequences of misinformation on violence, prejudice, and quality of democracy? Methodologically, she relies on…