Hi! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. I am a faculty scholar with the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, and an Associate co-PI of the Cooperative Election Studies.
I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2016.
My research agenda has two parts. First, I am a computational social scientist, where I work on interdisciplinary research teams to apply new computational tools and methods to substantive questions in American politics, particularly around political participation and polarization. Since 2020, I have mainly focused on how advancements in Artificial Intelligence, specifically Large Language Models like ChatGPT, can be used to advance social science research.
Second, drawing on a background in public opinion and political psychology, I study how and why people talk about politics in their daily lives, both online and off-line. Within both of these themes and in my teaching, I often address questions of race, ethnicity, and gender in American Politics.
Contact me at: lpargyle {at} byu.edu