Oct 30
Convocation with Lilliana Hall Mason
Fri, October 30, 2026
• 10:50am
- 11:50am (1h) • Skinner Memorial Chapel
Lilliana Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science. She is the author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity and co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy. She received her PhD in political psychology from Stony Brook University and her BA in politics from Princeton University. Her research on partisan identity, social sorting, and political violence has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics, and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Facebook Research Integrity Group, the Democracy Fund, and the Andrew Carnegie Foundation (formerly Carnegie Corporation of New York).
Her presentation is called A New Look at Polarization: The American Divide Over Pluralism.
This convocation is also presented as a virtual webinar. Please register in advance if you would like to attend via Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Event Contact: Noel Ponder