Silas Peirce Lecture: Tali Mendelberg

The second annual Silas Peirce Lecture will be held on Monday, March 2, likely at 6:00 p.m. The lecture will be Tali Mendelberg, Professor of Politics at Princeton University. The title of her lecture will be “The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation and Institutions.” Professor Mendelberg studies inequality and politics. Her book The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality (Princeton University Press, 2001), won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs." Her lecture is on the topic of her most recent book, The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation and Institutions (Princeton University Press, 2014), coauthored with Christopher Karpowitz. Earlier versions of some chapters won the American Political Science Association Political Communication and Political Psychology best paper awards and ranked in the top-ten most downloaded articles from the American Political Science Review in 2013. Professor Mendelberg teaches courses on race and gender and politics and political psychology.