Thessalia Merivaki
Associate Teaching Professor
Dr. Merivaki is an Associate Teaching Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and an Associate Research Professor at the Massive Data Institute. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology, and a member of the Carter Center's US Election Team.
Dr. Merivaki's research interests lie in the intersection of election science, voter behavior, and political communication. She is working with academics, federal and state agencies, election officials, and pro-democracy stakeholders to understand how accurate - and -false- information flows in the election information ecosystem, and how trust-building communication campaigns can help build trust in the integrity of elections.
Since 2020, Dr. Merivaki has been co-directing the Election Officials Communications Tracker, a massive data collection and analysis initiative that tracks all state and local election officials' communication efforts on social media. This work has received funding by the MIT Election Data Science Lab (2022 cycle) and Public Agenda (2024 cycle).
Dr. Merivaki received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Florida (2016).