Roxana Muenster

Roxana Mika Muenster is a graduate student in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, where she researches lifestyle politics, digital social movements, and conspiracy. She is particularly interested in how politics creep into ostensibly nonpolitical culture and lifestyle topics, and the role this plays in how ideology is disseminated. Her current research examines the relationship between health and political ideology on social media and e-commerce platforms; alternative social media platforms; and the ‘tradwife’ movement.

Roxana’s commentary has appeared in the Associated Press, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. She has a background in journalism, including as the Marjorie Deane fellow at The Economist, and was a COMPASS tech and media policy fellow at the Brookings Institution. She holds an MSc in Politics & Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Communication and English Linguistics from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is a graduate affiliate of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina.