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The Barbara & Michael Newmark Endowed Sociology Lecture: Dr. Lilliana Mason

You are cordially invited to join the Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis for the third presentation of its recently established lecture series. This lectureship honors Barbara and Michael Newmark, alumni and longtime community leaders in St. Louis. The series supports visits to Washington University in St. Louis by scholars whose work engages with the concept of a pluralistic society where diverse religious, racial, and ethnic groups live and work together, and their differences enhance the community.

This year's speaker, Dr. Lilliana Mason, will present a talk titled "The Pluralistic Majority."

Lilliana Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science at John Hopkins University.  She is co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy (2022), and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (2018). 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 American 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. She is a member of the 2024 class of Andrew Carnegie fellows.

 

This lecture will be held on Thursday, April 10th at 12:00 p.m., in Washington University's Goldberg Lounge.

The event is co-hosted by WashU's Political Science Department and is open to the public. ​Please feel free to share with those who may be of interest, both on-campus and in the local communities.

More information about our esteemed speaker can be found at: https://snfagora.jhu.edu/person/lilliana-mason/and at https://www.lillianamason.com/.