Shelby Grossman
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Shelby Grossman is a Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She focuses on AI and investigative journalism.
From 2019-2025 Shelby was a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory and Stanford Cyber Policy Center. She was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis from 2017-2019.
Her primary research interests are in AI and online harms, particularly child safety and covert influence operations. Most recently she has led investigations into challenges with the online child safety ecosystem, AI-generated child sexual abuse material, and the persuasiveness of AI-generated propaganda. Her research into a U.S. propaganda operation caused the Pentagon to conduct an internal review of their clandestine operations.
Her academic articles appear in Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, PNAS Nexus, Political Communication, PS: Political Science and Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, and World Politics. She published a book with Cambridge University Press.
- Ph.D. Department of Government, Harvard University
- B.A. Department of Political Science, Emory University