Batista, Carolina
Bio
Carolina F.T. Batista is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research centers on gender and political behavior, with a particular focus on how men interpret political messages, construct political meaning, and increasingly align with right-wing political projects across Latin America. More broadly, she is interested in how gendered narratives shape polarization, democratic engagement, and the symbolic foundations of political identity in high-stakes political environments.
Carolina has several collaborative projects examining gender, political identity, and digital behavior across Latin America, including work on news demand after electoral loss, affective polarization and democratic support, and the use of framing in fact-checking political misinformation.
At UMD, she is a member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science (iLCSS) and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LASC). Her work is multi-method and data-driven, combining original dataset construction, large-scale digital behavior analysis, and computational tools to study political meaning-making.
Before coming to the United States, Carolina earned a Master's in International Policy Analysis and Management from PUC-Rio, an MBA from Ibmec, and undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and International Relations in Brazil.
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Carolina Batista
Ph.D Student
| 5149 Tydings Hall
| batistac@umd.edu