Pamplin Society of Fellows

As it does every year, the Pamplin Society of Fellows has invited a distinguished visiting scholar to speak at Lewis & Clark. This year, however, with generous financial support, the Society has organized a three-part-series on politics and the 2008 election:

“Wedge Politics: The Structure and Function of Racial Group Cues in American
Politics.”
Vincent Hutchings, Ph.D.
Thursday, February 12
7:30pm in Council Chamber

Dr. Hutchings is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Research Associate Professor at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. The title of his lecture is “Wedge Politics: The Structure and Function of Racial Group Cues in American Politics.”

Professor Hutchings’ general interests include public opinion, elections, voting behavior, and African American politics. He recently published a book at Princeton University Press entitled “Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn About Politics,” that focuses on how, and under what circumstances, citizens monitor (and consequently influence) their elected representative’s voting behavior.

“Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Election”
Diana Mutz, Ph.D.
Tuesday, March 17
6:00pm in Council Chamber

Professor Diana Mutz, one of the country’s leading scholars of political
psychology and political communication, will be sharing her initial analysis of the 2008 election. The event is free and open to the public.

Professor Mutz is the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and
Communication at The University of Pennsylvania. She is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics in the Annenberg Public Policy Center at The University of Pennsylvania, and currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

“The Uncertain Politics of Multiracial Identity”
Jennifer Hochschild, Ph.D.
Thursday, April 16
6:00pm in Bodine 300

Professor Jennifer Hochschild is currently the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor Government and a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She also holds lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education. Professor Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy — particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration — and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion and political culture.

Her lecture at Lewis & Clark will detail her current book project, tentatively
entitled Blurring Racial Boundaries: Skin Color, Immigration, Multiracialism,
and DNA.

A prolific author with books out of the Princeton, Oxford, Harvard, and Yale presses, Professor Hochschild has also served as vice president of the American Political Science Association, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Foundation, and has taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton.

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All three lectures are free and open to the public. These lectures were made possible by generous support from the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Arts & Ideas, the Dean of the College, and the Political Science Department.

Email questions to bbrysacz@lclark.edu