Tali Mendelberg

Department of Politics

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544-1012

EMPLOYMENT

Professor (tenured), Dept. of Politics, Princeton University (2013 – present)

Associate Professor (tenured), Dept. of Politics, Princeton University (2002 – 2013)

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Politics, Princeton University (1994 – 2002)

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ph.D. in Political Science (December 1994)

University of Wisconsin, B.A. with Honors (1985)

  • Graduated with Distinction (Psychology)
  • Phi Beta Kappa

HONORS

Nominated for APSA Burdette Best Paper award, 2014

Best Paper Award, APSA Political Psychology Section, 2014.

Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award, APSA Political Communication Section, 2012.

Best Paper Award, APSA Political Psychology Section, 2012.

Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, Honorable Mention, 2011.

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association for “the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs,” 2002.

Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Field of Political Psychology, International Society of Political Psychology, 2002.

Goldsmith Research Award, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2014-2016.

Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, research assistance funding, 2010-3.

Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, 2006-08, 2013-14.

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2005-06.

NSF-funded survey module in Time-Share Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), 2003, with Adam Berinsky.

Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, 2000-2001.

Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University, 1999-2000.

Annenberg Fellowship, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-97.

250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Princeton University, 1997.

Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University, various years.

University of Michigan, Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, Rackham Thesis Award, Gerald R. Ford Dissertation Fellowship, University Fellowship, 1987-1988, 1991-1994.

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1988-91.

Jacob Javits Doctoral Fellowship, 1988-92. (Declined).

Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowship, 1987-88.

BOOKS

The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation and Institutions. With Christopher Karpowitz. Princeton University Press (Forthcoming 2014).

  • Earlier version of some chapters won Political Communication and Political Psychology best paper awards from APSA, ranked in the top-ten most downloaded articles from the APSR in 2013, nominated for 2014 APSA best paper award.

The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality. Princeton University Press (2001).

  • Winner of the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs, 2002.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

“Gender and Women’s Influence in Public Settings”, in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (eds.) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. (In press, 2015). With Chris Karpowitz and Lauren Mattioli.

“Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction”, Perspectives on Politics (March 2014). With Chris Karpowitz and Baxter Oliphant.

  • Nominated for APSA Burdette best paper award, 2014
  • selected for JFK School Gender Gap case studies in experiments
  • Winner, APSA Political Psychology section best paper, 2014

“Does Descriptive Representation Encourage Women to Deliberate with a Distinctive Voice?”American Journal of Political Science (Vol. 58 No. 2; Online Early ViewNovember 7, 2013; March 2014).With Nicholas Goedert and Christopher Karpowitz.

  • Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award, APSA Political Communication Section, 2012
  • Best Paper Award, APSA Political Psychology Section, 2012

“Gender Inequality in DeliberativeParticipation.” American Political Science Review106 (3)533-547 (2012).With Christopher Karpowitz and Lee Shaker.

  • Ranked in the top-ten most downloaded articles from the APSR in 2013.

“Political Deliberation."Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, 2nd ed.Leonie Huddy, David Sears and Jack Levy, eds. Oxford University Press (2013).With C. Daniel Myers.

“An Experimental Approach to Citizen Deliberation.” In Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science, ed.James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia, Cambridge University Press (2011). With Christopher Karpowitz.

  • Co-winner of the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book published in political psychology in 2011, awarded by the APSA Political Psychology Section, and of the Best Book Award for best book published in 2011 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics, awarded by the APSA Experimental Research Section.

“Race and the Group Bases of Public Opinion”. In New Directions in Public Opinion, ed.Adam J. Berinsky. Routledge (2011). With Jane Junn and Erica Czaja.

“Sex and Race: Are Black Candidates More Likely to be Disadvantaged by Sex Scandals?” Political Behavior (August 2010). With Adam Berinksy, Vincent Hutchings, Lee Shaker, and Nicholas Valentino.

“Deliberation, Incivility, and Race.” In Democratization in America, ed. Desmond King, Robert Lieberman, Gretchen Ritter, and Laurence Whitehead. Johns Hopkins University Press (2009).

“Racial Priming Revived.” Perspectives on Politics6 (1) 109-123 (2008).

“Racial Priming: Issues in Research Design and Interpretation.” Perspectives on Politics6 (1) 135-140 (2008).

“How People Deliberate About Justice.” In Can the People Govern?Edited by Shawn Rosenberg, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2007).With Christopher Karpowitz.

“The Indirect Effects of Discredited Stereotypes.” American Journal of Political Science49 (4) 846-865 (2005). With Adam Berinsky.

“Bringing the Group Back Into Political Psychology.” Political Psychology 26(4): 637-649 (2005).

”The Deliberative Citizen: Theory and Evidence.” In Political Decision Making, Deliberation and Participation: Research in Micropolitics, Volume 6, edited by Michael X. Delli Carpini, Leonie Huddy, and Robert Y. Shapiro. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (2002).

“Reconsidering the Environmental Determinants of Racial Attitudes.” American Journal of Political Science 44: 574-589 (July 2000). With J. Eric Oliver.

“Race and Public Deliberation.” Political Communication 17: 169-191 (April-June 2000). With John Oleske.

“Individualism Reconsidered: Principles and Prejudice in Contemporary American Public Opinion on Race.” In Racialized Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion, edited by David Sears, Jim Sidanius and Lawrence Bobo. University of Chicago Press (2000). With Donald Kinder.

“Executing Hortons: Racial Crime in the 1988 Presidential Campaign.” Public Opinion Quarterly: Special Issue on Race 61: 134-157 (Spring 1997).

“Cracks in American Apartheid: The Political Impact of Prejudice among Desegregated Whites.” Journal of Politics 57: 402-424 (May 1995). With Donald Kinder.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Improving Respondent Attention in Online Surveys”, conference on Identify and

Addressing Challenges in Survey Research, CSDP Princeton University, with Kyle

Dropp, May 2014

“Countering Implicit Appeals: Which Strategies Work?” With Matt Tokeshi. Under review at Political Communication.

BOOK REVIEWS, UNREFEREED ARTICLES, AND MISC.:

Blog post, London School of Economics’ USApp- American Politics and Policy blog ( with Baxter Oliphant and Chris Karpowitz, summer 2014

“More Women, but Not Enough”, with Christopher Karpowitz, New York Times, November 9, 2012.

“Groups and Deliberation.” With Christopher Karpowitz. Swiss Political Science Review December 13 (4) 645-662 (2007).

Review of Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. In Political Psychology 25(6): 969-984 (December 2004). With Adam Berinsky and Martha Crenshaw.

“Lott’s Lessons.” Princeton Political Quarterly,volume 1, issue 1, Winter2003.

Review of W. Lance Bennett and Robert M. Entman (eds.), Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy. In APSR 96(2): 418-419 (June 2002).

Review of Steven A. Tuch and Jack K. Martin (eds.), Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change. In Public Opinion Quarterly 63(1): 149-151 (Spring 1999).

INVITED TALKS, CONFERENCE PAPERS, SEMINARS

Invited speaker, Chicago Area Social and Political Behavior (CAB) workshop, May 2014

Conference on Identifying and Addressing Challenges in Survey Research, CSDP Princeton University, with Kyle Dropp, May 2014

Invited speaker,University of Michigan,CPS, April 2014

Invited speaker, MIT, April 2014

Invited speaker, Columbia University, January 2014

Invited speaker, Biannual Political Psychology meeting, SUNY-Stony Brook, Nov 2013

Invited speaker, Claremont Graduate School, November, 2013

APSA Meeting, Chicago, August, 2013

Gender and political psychology conference, Naperville, IL, August 2013.

ISPP Meeting, Tel Aviv, July 2013

Invited speaker, Jewish Center, Princeton NJ, June 2013

Invited speaker, Present Day Club, Princeton NJ, April 2013

Book conference for Monique Lyle, Vanderbilt University, April 2013

WPSA Meeting, Los Angeles, March 2013

Invited speaker, Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School, Harvard University, March 2013.

IPSA Annual Meeting, Madrid, July 2012

Invited speaker, Canadian Political Science Association, Workshop on Diversity, Edmonton, June 2012

Book conference for Antoine Banks, University of Maryland, April 2012

WPSA meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2012

Experimental Political Science Conference, NYU CESS Annual Meeting, New York, March 2012

Invited speaker, Rutgers University, November 2011

APSA Meeting, Seattle, September 2011

Experimental Political Science Conference, NYU CESS Annual Meeting, New York, March 2011, discussant

Invited speaker, University of Southern California, February 2011

APSA Meeting, Washington DC, September 2010

ISPP Meeting, San Francisco, July 2010

Deepening Democracy as a Way of Life: Challenges for Participatory Democracy and Citizenship Learning in the 21st Century, Rosario, Argentina, May 2010

WPSA Meeting, San Francisco, March 2010

Invited speaker, Rider University, Lawrenceville NJ, March 2010

Experimental Political Science Conference, NYU, February 2010

Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton, Round-table: Democratic Deliberation, February 2010

APSA Meeting, Toronto, September 2009

Princeton University Election 2008 Workshop, May 2009

Invited speaker, Southern CA Political Psychology Workshop, UC Irvine, May 2009

Invited speaker, Northwestern University Conference on Experimentation in Political Science, May 2009

MPSA Meeting, Chicago, April 2009

Invited speaker, Harvard University, November 2008

APSA Meeting, Boston, August 2008

ISPP Meeting, Paris, July 2008

Invited speaker, Leiden University, The Netherlands, May 2008

Invited speaker, UC Irvine deliberation seminar, May 2008

Invited speaker, Vanderbilt University conference on the 2008 campaign, April 2008

MPSA Meeting, Chicago, April 2008

WPSA Meeting, San Diego, March 2008

Invited speaker, UC San Diego, February 2008

NYU Experimental Science conference, February 2008

APSA Meeting, Chicago, August 2007

ECPR Workshop on Deliberation, Helsinki, Finland, May 2007

Invited speaker, Stanford, Berkeley, George Washington University, University of North Carolina, December 2006 - March 2007

APSA Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2006

ISPP Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, July 2006

Invited speaker, Stanford, UCLA, UC-Irvine, and Columbia, spring 2006

Invited speaker, Deliberation conference, Princeton University, March 2006.

Invited speaker, Yale Department of political science, January 2005.

Invited speaker, University of Michigan Department of political science, January 2005.

Invited speaker, Harvard Government Department, March 2005.

Invited speaker, MIT Department of Political Science, May 2004

Invited speaker, Harvard Inequality Seminar, May 2004.

Invited speaker, Washington University, St. Louis, conference on tolerance, April 2004.

Two round tables at the Annual Meeting of the MPSA, Chicago, April 2004.

Invited speaker, Oxford University conference on American Democratization, March 2004.

Color Lines Conference, Harvard, September 2003.

Invited speaker, Princeton Alumni Conference, Virginia, June 2003.

Invited speaker, University of Wisconsin Department of Political Science, May 2003.

“Author Meets Critics: The Race Card”, forum at MPSA, April 2003.

Invited speaker, Harvard Government Department, March 2003.

Northwestern University, 2002

Invited speaker, University of Minnesota, April 2002.

MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2002

APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 2001.

University of Washington, 2001

Rutgers University, 2001

New York University, 2001

Dartmouth, 2001

Invited speaker, Columbia University, 2001

Conference on Experimental Methods, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University, May 2001.

Invited speaker, Hendricks Symposium on Race in America, University of Nebraska, October 2000.

APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, September 2000.

ISPP Annual Meeting, Seattle, July 2000.

MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2000.

APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 1999.

International Society for Political Psychology Meeting, Amsterdam, July 1999.

MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 1999.

International Society for Political Psychology Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 1998.

Biannual Seminar on Political Psychology, Columbia University, November 1998.

MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 1998.

Keynote Speech, Conference on Race and Discourse, University of Nebraska, and Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska, 1997.

Departments of Political Science and of Communication, Hebrew University, 1997.

Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, 1996.

International Society for Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, July 1996.

APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 1996.

APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 1995.

Biannual Seminar on Political Psychology, New York, NY, November 1994.

Department of Psychology, Social Psychology Colloquium, Princeton University, 1994.

Annual Meeting of the APSA, Washington, DC, September 1993.

Annual Meeting of the MPSA, Chicago, IL, April 1992.

Annual Meeting of the APSA, Washington, DC, September 1991.

Annual Meeting of the APSA, Atlanta, GA, September 1989.

TEACHING

Seminar in U.S. politics: Racial politics (undergrad)

Race and American politics lecture course (cross-listed with African American Studies and the Community-Based Learning Initiative) (undergrad)

Political psychology (graduate)

Deliberation and cultural conflict (undergrad)

Race and democratic discussion (undergrad)

Public opinion seminar (graduate, undergraduate) and undergraduate lecture course

Research workshop for juniors

ADVISING

Senior thesis and junior independent work advisor

  • race, ethnicity, gender, media, public opinion, campaigns and elections, political psychology, political communication
  • Thesis prizes for advisees: Zachary Savage 2008; Ryan Ebanks 2010

Dissertation Advising:

Gabriel Lenz, Amy Gershkoff, Chris Karpowitz (chair), Jason Casellas, Jonathan Ladd, Deborah Schildkraut, Reuel Rogers, Shana Kushner Gadarian (chair; RWJ fellow), Aaron Strauss, Danielle Shani (political psychology section dissertation award, APSA 2010), Megan Francis, Melody Crowder-Meyer (co-chair; Breckenridge Award for best paper on gender, MPSA 2009), Andrew Owen (best experimental methods dissertation award, APSA 2011), C. Dan Myers (chair; best experimental methods dissertation award, APSA 2012; Jewell best graduate paper award, SPSA 2010; RWJ fellow), Steve Snell (chair), Erica Czaja (chair; NSF dissertation grant, RWJ fellow), Baxter Oliphant (chair), Matt Tokeshi (chair), Matt Tomkowiak, Kabir Khanna, Pavielle Haines, Meredith Sadin (NSF dissertation grant, RWJ fellow)

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Moderator, alumni reunions panel on gender, Princeton University, May 2014

Debate judge for alumni-day debates, Princeton University, February, June 2014

Member, thesis award committee, Politics Department, 2013-14

Faculty mentor, Women’s Mentorship Program, PU (2013-14)

Member, Chair’s advisory committee, Politics Department (2013-14)

Organizer, political behavior graduate student monthly seminar, CSDP, 2013-14

Co-organizer, American Politics colloquium, CSDP, Princeton University (2013-14)

Director of PLESS lab for experimental social science, Princeton University

Director of the Bobst Political Psychology lab, Princeton University

Director of Graduate Studies, Politics Department

Departmental representative for juniors

Affirmative Action officer for Department of Politics searches

Membership on appointed committees at PU:

Member, advisory committee on women’s leadership, Princeton University 2014

Committee on diversity in graduate education, Department of Politics (2010-11, 2013-14)

Committee on tenure reform, Department of Politics (2002-03)

Search and personnel committees (various, yearly since 2006)

Executive committees for CSDP, Bobst Center

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, ISPP governing council, 2014-

Committee, Miller Award, APSA section on elections, public opinion, voting, spring ‘14

Editorial Board, Advances in Political Psychology, 2014 -

Participant, mentoring conference in gender and political psychology, NIU, August 2013

Chair, Political Psychology best paper award committee, 2012-13

Book manuscript workshop for a junior faculty at Vanderbilt University, April 2013

Book manuscript workshop for a junior faculty at U Maryland, March 2012

Chair, ISPP Erikson award committee, 2010-11

NYU CESS conference, discussant, February 2011

Deliberation Round Table, CSDP, Princeton University, 2010

Co-organizer, Princeton Workshop on the 2008 Election, May 2009

Panelist on the 2008 election, CSDP, Princeton University, October 2008

NYU workshop on measuring ethnicity comparatively, October 2008

Harvard University external tenure committee, Spring 2008

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences review panel, 2008

Speech for Alumni club of Orange County CA, October 2007

Book conference on Cara Wong’s Boundaries of Obligation, Harvard, 2007

Chair, Schattschneider Dissertation Award Committee, APSA, 2005

Editorial board, Journal of Politics, 2005-2007

Editorial board, Perspectives on Politics, 2005- 2006

Editorial board, Political Psychology, 2005 - 2007

Erikson Award committee, ISPP, 2004

Conference on Civic Participation, Princeton University, discussant, 2004

APSA section chair, political psychology section, 2003

Conference on Cultural Conflict, Princeton University, October 2002, discussant.

Conference on Race/Ethnicity, Self/Culture, and Inequality, Princeton University, April 2002, panel chair

MPSA Annual Meetings, discussant and/or panel chair, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001.

APSA Annual Meeting, discussant, 1994, 1999, 2000, chair and organizer of “racial elections” panel, 1995.

Conference on Inequality and Institutions, Rutgers University, March 1999, discussant.

Conference on Racism and Ideology, UCLA, November 1997, discussant.

Conference on the Future of Fact, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, February 1997, co-organizer and discussant.

American Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting, May 1996, discussant.

Festschrift conference in honor of Stanley Kelley, Princeton University, October 1995, discussant.

International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, July 1995, panelist, round table on "Stereotype Research."

National Election Studies Conference on the Impact of the Presidential Campaign, University of Pennsylvania, November 1994, discussant.

Referee, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Communication Research, Political Communication, Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Perspectives On Politics,Cambridge University Press, NSF, TESS.

(5/27/2014)

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