Creator and co-host of Is This Democracy Podcast on Apple Podcasts (Since November 2022)

2024

• “How a Growing Divide in Politics Impacts Americans’ Views on Political Violence”. Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien (February 11, 2024).

• “Lilliana Mason on Threat of Political Violence”. Washington Journal on C-SPAN (January 11, 2024).

• “Is the World Losing Faith in Democracy”. The Real Story on BBC World Service (January 6, 2024).

2023

• “How Politics Became Our Identity”. Our Dream Deferred from the American Public Human Services Association (August 9, 2023).

• “What Really Drives Our Political Behavior?” How to Save a Country from The New Republic (April 13, 2023).

• “Examining how U.S. politics became intertwined with personal identity”. PBS NewsHour (March 8, 2023).

• “How today’s divisions in America are different from what we’ve seen before”. PBS NewsHour (Feb 22, 2023).

  2022

• “Radical American Partisanship". On the Record on WYPR/NPR (November 1, 2022).

• “LPTV: We’re Speaking - June 8, 2022.” The Lincoln Project (June 8, 2022).

• “Episode 0078 - Lilliana Hall Mason”. The Why (June 6, 2022).

• “‎Political Violence And Radical American Partisanship with Dr. Lilliana Mason.” Dave Troy Presents on Apple Podcasts. Season 1, Episode 14 (May 13, 2022).

• “The Roots of Radical Partisanship”. Democracy Works Podcast (April 4, 2022).

• “The Growing Divide—Polarization in the United States” Renewing America Series from the Council on Foreign Relations (January 7, 2022).

• “Pursuing a More Perfect Union” 2022. Preserving Democracy on PBS (January 6, 2022).

  2021

• “How Identity Politics Took Over the Republican Party”. The Ezra Klein Show from The New York Times (August 13, 2021).

• “Study Looks At What Motivates Trump Supporters.” All Things Considered on NPR (July 11, 2021).

• “What If We Don't Need To 'Fix' Polarization?” The NPR Politics Podcast (March 26, 2021).

  2020

• “Anger and Identity in an Age of Polarization”. On the Media on WNYC/NPR (October 30, 2020).

• “Lily Mason | How Politics Became Our Identity”. The Psychology Podcast on Apple Podcasts (June 18, 2020).

  2018 - 2019

• “Polarization and Political Discourse in the U.S.” Library of Congress (May 30, 2019).

• “Lilliana Mason on Uncivil Agreement” EconTalk (August 20, 2018).

Expert Opinions

2024

• Achenbach, Joel. “Science Is Revealing Why American Politics Are so Intensely Polarized”. The Washington Post (January 20, 2024).

• Leingang, Rachel. “‘Better Be Scared’: Threats of Political Violence Foretell Tense Election Year”. The Guardian (January 10, 2024).

2023

• Jedeed, L., Schaffer, M., Masket, S., & Navarro, J. “What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party.” POLITICO (October 6, 2023).

• Zitner, Aaron. “Why Tribalism Took Over Our Politics”. The Wall Street Journal (August 28, 2023).

• Pavon, Hector. “Lilliana Mason: ‘Según dónde viva una persona en eeuu, tendrá derechos y protecciones muy diferentes.’” Clarín (July 24, 2023).

• Edsall, Thomas. “The Politics of Delusion Have Taken Hold”. The New York Times (May 31, 2023).

• Dionne, E.J., Jr. “Opinion | What the Memorial Day weekend debt ceiling deal teaches us about politics.” The Washington Post (May 28, 2023).

• Kalmoe, N. & Mason, L. “US Public Opposition For Armed Political Demonstrations”. Political Violence At A Glance (April 19, 2023).

• Hill, Kip. “Felt more angry lately when talking about politics, or anything else? There’s reasons for that” The Spokesman Review (February 12, 2023).

• Mason, L., & Dresden, J. Assessing the Effect of Political Violence on American Democracy: A Report on the Violence and Democracy Impact Tracker. Protect Democracy & SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (November 2023).

• More Than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy. APSA Presidential Task Force on Political Parties. APSA & Protect Democracy (July 2023).

Invited Talks

2023

• Presentation on “Political Violence in the American Public” for the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy Seminar Series at the University of Notre Dame (September 8, 2023).

• Speaker at the SNF Nostos 2023 Conference’s session on “Reconnecting in a Fractured Political Landscape”. Hosted by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (June 21, 2023).

• Panel moderator for Power and Purpose: A Symposium on Mental Health and Democratic Agency. Hosted by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (June 20, 2023).

• Moderator for “The Deadly Intersection of White Supremacy and Firearms” webinar. Co-hosted by the Center for Gun Violence Solutions and the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at Johns Hopkins University (February 9, 2023).

• Book conference for Eric Schickler and Paul Pierson at the University of California, Berkeley (January 2023).

2022

• Book conference for Stephanie Ternullo at Harvard University (December 2022).

• “Polarization or Authoritarianism? Diagnosing the Threats to our Fragile Democracy”. Hosted by Hebrew University (November 2022).

• Panelist for “Panel Discussion: The Crisis of Winner-Take-All Elections”. Hosted by Fix Our House (November 15, 2022).

• Panelist for “Virtual Briefing: Midterms' Implications for Democracy”. Hosted by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (November 10, 2022).

• Panelist for “The Deadly Intersection of White Supremacy & Firearms Webinar”. Hosted by Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions (October 2022).

• Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Workshop (virtual). Hosted by Stanford University (October 2022).

• Panelist for “The Power of Us: Addressing Challenges to Pluralistic Democracy Conference”. Hosted by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Lehigh University (October 2022).

• Event Speaker for “Media for Democracy Panel Discussion”. Hosted by the George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics (October 2022).

• “Paul Cadario Conference Centre Opening: Democracy Symposium”. Hosted by the University of Toronto (October 2022). 

• “Conference on Political Violence and Democratic Backsliding”. Hosted by the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (October 2022). 

• Panelist for the “Polarization, Division & Civic Bridges Session”. Hosted by the Apple University Democracy Series (October 2022).

• “Author Meets Critics” and “Roundtable on Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology”. Held at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Montreal, Canada (September 2022).

• Speaker at the FiloLab Polarization and Social Change Summer School at the University of Granada in Granada, Spain (June 2022).

• Presentation on “Measuring Political Violence Attitudes” (virtual) for the Pew Research Center (June 2022).

• Political Psychology Workshop at Stony Brook University (April 2022).

• American Politics Workshop at Columbia University (April 2022).

• BOLLI Lecture (virtual) at Brandeis University (February 2022).

• Political Behavior Seminar (virtual) at the London School of Economics (February 2022).

• American Politics and Public Policy Workshop (virtual) at Yale University (February 2022).

• “What Universities Owe Democracy” (virtual). Hosted by the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (February 2022).

• Pitt Family Lecture (virtual) at Arizona State University School of Law (January 2022).

2021

• Presentation for EJ Dionne and Theda Skocpol’s class (virtual) at Harvard University (November 2021).

• Seminar presentation (virtual) for the Roosevelt Institute (November 2021).

• Guest lecture (virtual) at Washington College (November 2021).

• Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Workshop (virtual) at Stanford University (October 2021).

• Guest Lecture (virtual) at Tulane University (September 2021).

• Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law (virtual) at Stanford University (May 13, 2021).

• Protest, Political Violence, and Inequality Webinar (virtual) at Princeton University (April 9, 2021).

• Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Workshop (virtual) at Stanford University (March 19, 2021).

• Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (virtual) at the Université de Montréal (March 12, 2021).

• Political Psychology Workshop (virtual) at Tufts University (March 3, 2021).

• “Healing the Big Fractures”. Hosted by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Finance at Princeton University (February 18, 2021).

  2020

• Annenberg Public Policy Center Speaker Series (virtual) at University of Pennsylvania (November 3, 2020).

• Presentation on “Election 2020 + Radical Partisanship” at TEDxMidAtlantic (October 29, 2020).

• UC Berkeley American Politics Workshop (virtual) at the University of California, Berkeley (October 28, 2020).

• Speaker at the Global Empowerment Meeting (virtual). Hosted by the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School (September 24, 2020).

• Speaker at the Bridging Differences Virtual Summit. Hosted by the Greater Good Science Center at University of California, Berkeley (May 15, 2020). 

• “Fracturing Democracy: The Erosion of Civil Society in a Shifting Communication Ecology” (small conference). Hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison (February 27-28, 2020). 

• “Research on Online Political Hostility” (small conference). Hosted by Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark (January 23-24, 2020).

2019

• “Democratic Resilience: Can U.S. Democracy Withstand Rising Polarization?” (small conference). Hosted by Cornell University (November 7-9, 2019). 

• “Workshop: Targeted Violence in America: Learning from Overseas, Acting at Home”. Hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (September 16, 2019). 

• Guest Lecturer for the Department of Government at Georgetown University (April 10, 2019). 

• Department of Government Speaker Series at Franklin and Marshall College (March 27, 2019). 

• Clarke Forum Lecture at Dickinson College (March 20, 2019).

• Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior at Harvard University (March 1, 2019). 

• Michael Margolis Lecture in Digital Citizenship at the University of Cincinnati (February 12, 2019). 

• Program in Political Behavior and Political Institutions Workshop at Texas A&M University (January 28, 2019). 

2018

• American and Comparative Political Behavior Workshop at Yale University (December 7, 2018). 

• “Social Media and Polarization: European and North American Perspectives”. Hosted by Lund University in Lund, Sweden (November 12-13, 2018). 

• “Political Parties, Representation, and Governance in the 21st Century”. Hosted by Stanford University (November 2-3, 2018).

• Zürich Workshop on Social Identities in Political Science at the University of Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland (October 25-27, 2018). 

• American Politics Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania (October 17, 2018).

• Democracy in the Post-Truth Condition Workshop at Cornell University (September 28, 2018).

• “Talloires Conference: Populism and the Future of Democracy”. Hosted by the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in Talloires, France (June 15-17, 2018).

• “Conference on Symbolic and Material Dimensions of Contemporary Political Behavior in the U.S.”. Hosted by the University of Minnesota (April 27, 2018).

• Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan (February 1, 2018). 

2017

• Social Psychology Speaker Series at the University of Virginia (October 16, 2017). 

• Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. October 5, 2017. 

• Keynote speech at the University of Maryland Department of Psychology’s Annual Diversity Conference (June 22, 2017).

• James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Conference at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC (June 15, 2017). 

• Department of Government Colloquium at the College of William and Mary (February 10, 2017). 

2016

• Constitution Day Speech at Hood College (September 30, 2016). 

• “Institute for Democracy Research Lecture Series: The Battle for the White House”. Hosted by the University of Göettingen in Göettingen, Germany (June 1, 2016).

  2015

• Georgetown American Government Seminar at Georgetown University (December 5, 2015). 

• Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan (November 18, 2015). 

• Center on American Politics Speaker Series at Indiana University (November 5, 2015). 

• “Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Conference on Political Polarization: Media and Communication Influences”. Hosted by Princeton University (May 1, 2015). 

2013

• Emerging Trends Lecture Series at Rutgers University (December 5, 2013). 

• New York Area Political Psychology Workshop (November 16, 2013).