Allison Koh is a Research Associate at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. She recently defended her PhD at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. She uses computational methods to study global authoritarianism, human rights advocacy, and political communication on social media. Her research investigates (adversarial) uses of digital technologies in international politics. In her dissertation entitled Platformed Power Plays: Authoritarian Adaptations in Foreign Social Media Spaces, she focuses on how high-capacity authoritarian regimes and their supporters use social media to exert their influence and limit dissenting voices—even on foreign platforms where their governments do not have direct control over platform governance. In a past life, she was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia and happened to get a BSc in Economics and Asian Studies from Tulane University after living in New Orleans for four years.
