Tali Mendelberg is the John Work Garrett Professor of Politics at Princeton University, co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton’s School for Public and International Affairs, and director of the Program on Inequality at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Her book The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality (Link is external) won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for “the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs.  ”The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation and Institutions (Link is external)”, coauthored with Chris Karpowitz, has also won distinctions. Earlier versions of its parts received the APSA Paul Lazarsfeld Award for the best paper in Political Communication (twice), the APSA Best Paper Award in Political Psychology (twice), the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics (honorable mention), and was in the top-ten most downloaded APSR articles in 2013. She has published many articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics,and various other academic journals. She has also published for a wide audience in outlets such as the New York Times, and her research has been referenced in various news outlets. She has held editorial positions as the founding editor of Princeton Studies in Political Behavior and an editor at the American Political Science Review. Her work has been supported by fellowships or grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the National Science Foundation.She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. Her areas of specialization are political psychology and communication, public opinion, political behavior, social inequalities as gender, race, and class, and democratic backsliding and democratic resilience.