Tali Mendelberg – the John Work Garrett Professor in Politics, director of the Program on Inequality at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics – was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of political science!

Three Princeton faculty members are among the 2023 Guggenheim Fellows, a cohort announced yesterday by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The prestigious fellowships are awarded annually to roughly 175 individuals working across the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and creative arts. 

Professor Mendelberg joined the University in 1994. Her areas of specialization are political communication, gender, race, class, public opinion, political psychology and experimental methods. She is the author of The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality and, with Christopher F. Karpowitz, The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions.