Tyler Girard

Tyler Girard is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, core faculty of the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), and faculty member in the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program.

Girard received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Western Ontario in 2021. In recognition of his dissertation and academic achievements, he was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Duke University.

Girard’s research explores the political economy of digital technologies and technological change, the promotion of global norms or agendas, and methodological issues of measurement and scaling. In his book project, currently under review, Girard explains how ideas become global agendas, focusing specifically on the evolution of the global financial inclusion agenda through the participatory construction of ambiguity by transnational communities. His research is published or forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, the Review of International Political Economy, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of International Development, and Critical Policy Studies.