Department of Politics - Tali Mendelberg



		Tali Mendelberg Associate Professor Curriculum Vitae 215 Robertson Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 609.258.4750 email: talim@princeton.edu



Specialization: Political communication; race; public opinion; political psychology; experimental methods Prof. Mendelberg is the author of The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality (Princeton University Press, 2001), winner of the American Political Science Association's 2002 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs." She has also published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Communication. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. In 2002 she received the Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Field of Political Psychology. She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. Please click the links below for additional information, or a PDF copy of the respective publications. Books: The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality, Princeton University Press (2001). Selected Articles and Chapters: “Racial Priming Revived,” Perspectives on Politics 6(1): 109-123 (March 2008). “Racial Priming: Issues in Research Design and Interpretation”, Perspectives on Politics 6(1): 135-140 (March 2008). “How People Deliberate About Justice.” With Christopher Karpowitz. In Can the People Govern?, edited by Shawn Rosenberg, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), PP. 101-129. “The Indirect Effects of Discredited Stereotypes.” With Adam Berinsky. American Journal of Political Science 49 (4) 846-865 (2005). “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. Recent Citations: Judis, John."Obama and the Psychology of the Color Barrier",The New Republic(May 28, 2008). Heilemann, John."The Color-Coded Campaign", New York Magazine (August 10, 2008). Pettus, Emily W. "US Politicians Find Ways to Play on Racial Fears", USA Today (July 2, 2008).