Monroe is founding Head of the Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA], which offers a BS, a doctoral minor, and a dual-title PhD, and founding Director of the Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]. Both SoDA and C-SoDA are extensions of the NSF-funded Big Data Social Science [BDSS] IGERT, which he directed from 2012-2018, and the Quantitative Social Science Initiative [QuaSSI], which he directed from 2006-2018. He is also Chief Scientist of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy's Mood of the Nation Poll, directing efforts to understand the poll's open-ended survey questions through text analytics.

Monroe was a Rhodes Scholar and received his D. Phil from Oxford University in 1994. Prior to joining the Department of Political Science at Penn State, he was a faculty member at Indiana University and Michigan State University, and a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University.

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He is not the ornithologist who wrote Taxonomy and Distribution of Birds of the World and The Birds of Kentucky and investigated UFOs on the side -- that was his father, the late Burt Monroe, Jr. Nor has he ever been a pilot, insurance salesman, journalist, sportsman of the year, tennis champion, or amateur ornithologist -- that was his grandfather, Burt Monroe, Sr. Nor is he the guy who set a land speed record on an old motorcycle and was played by Anthony Hopkins in a movie -- that was the late New Zealander Burt Munro, no relation.