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Understanding complex social problems is easier when data scientists, social scientists, humanists, and other difference makers can be assembled around the same table. It also means drawing from diverse methods, theories, and perspectives.
At the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, we’re building an innovative community of scholars who not only pursue collaborative text analytics research using our data, software, and expertise, but are deeply invested in promoting societal well-being. The Cline Center affiliates network includes faculty, students, and staff from six colleges at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and from collaborating institutions spread across five continents.
The Cline Center is a collaborative enterprise that draws faculty, staff, students, and difference-makers from the public and private sectors into interdisciplinary research projects that address real-world problems. Core staff and faculty members working in our Research Park location manage day-to-day operations involving faculty fellows, graduate fellows, research assistants, interns, and analysts. We also support collaborative projects through our network of faculty and research affiliates spanning the Urbana-Champaign campus as well as other institutions across the globe.
Here’s who is making a difference with the Cline Center.
Larissa’s research looks at how the U.S. media covers undemocratic events differently based on media ideology and whether the events happen at home or abroad. She is focusing on the January 6th Capitol attack and the January 8th attack on Brazil’s government buildings. Working with the Global News Index (GNI) and the Archer system from the Cline Center, she will investigate how partisan outlets use different language, assign blame, and frame these events over time. Using framing theory and a mix of quantitative and qualitative analysis, she will look at how media narratives shape public opinion and views of democratic stability. This research contributes to the literature on political communication, polarization, and democratic erosion, and offers insights into how the media shapes public response to undemocratic political events.
The Schroeder Summer Graduate Fellowship Program is made possible by a generous gift from William A. and Paul W. Schroeder. The program aims to enhance the quality of rigorous research on topics that fall within ongoing research programs at the Cline Center by helping graduate students in Political Science at the University of Illinois generate original and publishable research early in their graduate career.
Do Young’s project examines how wartime coup attempts influence civil war dynamics in both the short and long term. Using the Cline Center’s Coup d’État Project Dataset, it first investigates how such coups affect short-term ceasefires and long-term peace agreements of civil wars. Additionally, by drawing on media sentiment scores from the Global News Index and anti-government protest data from the Cline Center’s Historical Phoenix Event Dataset, the project explores how post-coup governments restore stability and how that shapes prospects for civil war resolution. This project expands our understanding of conflict by uncovering the critical role of government instability—often overlooked in civil war studies—and revealing how different forms of violence are deeply interconnected.
The Schroeder Summer Graduate Fellowship Program is made possible by a generous gift from William A. and Paul W. Schroeder. The program aims to enhance the quality of rigorous research on topics that fall within ongoing research programs at the Cline Center by helping graduate students in Political Science at the University of Illinois generate original and publishable research early in their graduate career.