Margaret E. Roberts

Margaret E. Roberts is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science and holds Chancellor's Associates Chair I at the University of California, San Diego.^[1][2] Her research focuses on censorship in China.^[3][4][5]

Margaret E. Roberts
Citizenship	American
Education	Stanford University (BA, MS), Harvard University (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Political scientist, China specialist
Employer	University of California, San Diego
Website	https://margaretroberts.net

Education

Roberts holds a BA in international relations and economics and an MA in statistics from Stanford University. She earned a PhD in government from Harvard University.^[6]

Publications

Books

• Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall, Princeton University Press, 2018^[7]

Articles

• The Authoritarian Data Problem, Journal of Democracy, October 2023 (co-authored with Eddie Yang)^[8]