Isabelle Langrock

Isabelle Langrock is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Le Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (The Center for Research on Social Inequalities) at Sciences Po in Paris, France. She works with Dr. Jen Schradie and studies the different information environments of the U.S. and France.

She received her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2023. Her Dissertation, “The Irony of Openness: Gender Inequality in Self-Governed Knowledge Systems” built a framework for investigating gender gaps across different forms of open knowledge production, including Wikipedia and Open Source Software. Her work speaks to the inter-disciplinary domains of digital governance and organization, information environments, and social activism.