Colin Henry is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is a political scientist working on questions at the intersection of political violence and digital communication technologies. His dissertation asks: how does the architecture of online social spaces radicalize digital communities? Read a draft of his project proposal here (pdf).
conflictNet
is an NSF-funded R package for the creation, cleaning, exploration, and modeling of conflict-related network datasets. Under co-PIs Dr. Cassy Dorff (Vanderbilt) and Dr. Shahryar Minhas (Michigan State), conflictNet
provides accessible network analysis tools for political scientists studying interstate and intrastate war.