Outstanding Interdisciplinary Educator

Lilliana Mason is an SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland. 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, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.

She is co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy (University of Chicago Press). Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Facebook Research Integrity Group, and the Democracy Fund.