Outstanding Interdisciplinary Educator

Lilliana Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. 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 in the United States 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 author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Indentity; and co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Facebook Research Integrity Group, the Democracy Fund, the the Carnegie Corporation of New York.