I’m Julien Labarre, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Originally from France, I came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar in 2016. I am also a proud affiliate of the International Panel on the Information Environment, a distinguished initiative that was officially launched at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit with the support of the Nobel Foundation. I completed my PhD in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2024.

I am an award-winning instructor with a strong commitment to inclusive and experiential pedagogy. I've been fortunate to receive highly selective teaching awards, including a Fulbright teaching scholarship (2016), the UCSB Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching award (2018), the Adams-Lee Distinguished Teaching Award (2020, 2022, 2023, & 2024), and the UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching award (2023).

My research straddles political communication, political behavior and psychology. More specifically, I study how the media and political psychology contribute to pathologies of democracy, such as epistemic vulnerability, polarization, and populist or extreme attitudes.

My academic work has been published in top-tier political science, communication, and computer science journals, including Political Communication, the International Journal of Press/Politics, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, and the Proceedings of the ‘24 IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence. My work has also found its way into prominent international media, including The New York Times, ABC News, Bloomberg, Le Monde, Radio Canada,  France 24, Libération, Diplomatic Courier, RTBF, and Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS).

In the past, I have collaborated with NEPOCS as a French partner on THREATPIE projects, and I was a research partner at Democracy Reporting International.

When I'm away from work, I enjoy spending time with my three-year-old dog Jack.