Dr. Myriam Shiran is a political scientist and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Ohio State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston and specializes in research on gender and politics, particularly examining media representation of women politicians and barriers to women’s political participation. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Politics & Gender, and she has received recognition for her research on backlash against women in politics. Dr. Shiran combines traditional social science methods with computational approaches to better understand political dynamics and has experience working across different regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States.