Vivian Ferrillo
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
Office:
Chancellors 361, 757-221-7625
Links:
[[vferrillo, Email]]
Office Hours:
Friday, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.
Research Interests:
American Politics, Social Networks and Social Media, Digital Far-Right Movements, Artificial Intelligence
Background
Vivian Ferrillo is an American politics, race and ethnic politics, and communications scholar who employs quantitative methods. She teaches courses on American politics, race, media, and data science.
Ferrillo’s dissertation, Hate and Political Identity Online, examines the beliefs and behavior of racially motivated digital movements like the alt-right. She specializes in text and linguistic analysis, relying on original datasets containing text data that she gathers from deplatformed or censored far-right communities. Her research focuses on digital social movements and far-right communities on social media, political socialization, deplatforming, and the political artifacts of artificial intelligence systems.
Dr. Ferrillo has a BM in Oboe Performance from the Jacobs School of Music. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2021.
