Christopher Buckley was a predoctoral research specialist working under Professors Andy Guess and Thomas Fujiwara on projects studying social media, misinformation, and policy preferences. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he interned at the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research. His undergraduate research focused on rivalry and territorial conflict. His primary research interests include conflict, misinformation, and natural language processing.