Melina Much
she/her
Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University
Melina Much is a postdoctoral fellow for NYU’s Center for the Study of Social Media and Politics. She attained her PhD from the University of California, Irvine in 2024 along with a Masters in Math and Behavioral Sciences. For CSMaP, she specializes in the intersection of political psychology, survey methodologies, and social media in the American context.
Melina works on questions of identity politics and statistical methodologies to study intersectionality. She has also worked on questions of gender-based mobilization on social media during the #MeToo era and in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson. Currently, she is focused on how gendered digital media ecosystems in podcasting influenced vote choice in the 2024 election.