Hannah Waight is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, Eugene and a former Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP), New York University. She received her PhD. In 2022 from the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. She previously received a B.A. and M.A. in East Asian Studies, both from Harvard University.

Hannah studies the control and reception of information in authoritarian regimes, particularly contemporary China. She has developed new approaches to measuring and conceptualizing the existence and amplification of state propaganda in domestic Chinese newspapers, digital news, and through generative AI. She also has completed and ongoing projects in the sociology of perception, history of social thought, and gendered online harassment and social media participation.