Bailey Scott is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at George Washington University. Her research interests lie at the nexus between international relations and Russian politics and have a particular focus on understanding the strategies and consequences of disinformation in international politics. Bailey’s dissertation project focused on the Russian propaganda and disinformation strategies and employed a mix of machine learning and qualitative process tracing to assess historic Soviet propaganda strategies and contemporary Russian trolling behavior on digital and social media. She holds a PhD in political science from Princeton University (2022) and an M.Phil in international relations from the University of Cambridge (2017). Prior to her studies at Cambridge, Bailey graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania (2016) with a B.A. in International Relations and minor in Russian Studies