LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Princeton University
Assistant Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
lafleurs@princeton.edu
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(609) 258-5376
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LaFleur Stephens is a scholar of American politics, whose research interests include public opinion, campaigns and elections, and racial attitudes. She is currently working on her book project, “Race-ing for Votes: How Candidates Use Racial Appeals to Win Elections in Majority White Jurisdictions...
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LaFleur Stephens is a scholar of American politics, whose research interests include public opinion, campaigns and elections, and racial attitudes. She is currently working on her book project, “Race-ing for Votes: How Candidates Use Racial Appeals to Win Elections in Majority White Jurisdictions.” She is a recipient of a National Science Foundation’s Time-Sharing in Experimental Social Sciences Research Grant, as well as a grant from the Center for the Study of Public Policy in Diverse Societies. Her dissertation, “The Effectiveness of Implicit and Explicit Racial Appeals in a ‘Post-racial’ America” was awarded the 2014 Best Dissertation Award in Race and Ethnic Politics from the American Political Science Association. Dr. Stephens is co-author of “African Americans and the Presidential Nomination Process,” published in William Mayer’s The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2008. Prior to joining the Politics Department at Princeton, she was a visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at MIT.
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