Co-Director

Kaylyn J. Schiff

Kaylyn Schiff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University and Co-Director of the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL). She studies American politics and policy, with a focus on quantitative and experimental methods. Research addresses how citizens share information with government and examines the drivers of policymaker and bureaucrat responsiveness to citizen input. Additionally, she devotes particular attention to the impacts of emerging technologies on government and society. For example, Dr. Schiff considers how technological developments are changing citizen-government contact and explore implications for service provision, misinformation, policing, education, and government use of artificial intelligence.
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Her research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Nature Human Behaviour, Policy Studies Journal, Public Administration Review, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, and Public Opinion Quarterly. In addition, her dissertation — The Digital Citizen: The Impact of Technology on Public Participation and Government Responsiveness — won the 2023 Leonard D. White Award for Best Dissertation in the Field of Public Administration by the American Political Science Association.

Dr. Schiff received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Emory University and completed a B.A. in Public Policy from Princeton University and an M.Ed. from Fordham University. For the 2022-2023 academic year, she was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. Previously, Dr. Schiff worked in K-12 education as a teacher and as a school administrator focused on curriculum design, assessment, and educational data use.