Shanto Iyengar

Shanto Iyengar is Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Political Communication Lab., Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford he was a professor at the University of California Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of several notable books, including Do the Media Govern? Reporters, Politicians and the American People, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate (with Stephen Ansolabehere), Explorations in Political Psychology (with William J. McGuire), The Media Game: American Politics in the Age of Television (with Stephen Ansolabehere and Roy Behr), Is Anyone Responsible: How Television Frames Political Issues, and News that Matters: Television and American Opinion (with Donald R. Kinder). He is the recipient of several distinguished awards, including a Lifetime Career Award form the American Political Science Association and the Goldsmith Book Prize (for Going Negative).

Shanto Iyengar will give the following lecture series. All lectures will be at 3pm in the Sage Conference Room, unless otherwise noted.