Melissa Harris-Lacewell

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name = Melissa Harris-Lacewell

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birth_name = Melissa Victoria Harris
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occupation = Professor, author,
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website = [http://www.melissaharrislacewell.com www.melissaharrislacewell.com]

Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell is an American writer and political scientist. Associate Professor of Politics and African American studies at Princeton University. She received her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and an "honoris causa" doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School.

She is the author of "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought" on the methods African Americans use to develop political ideas through ordinary conversations in places like barbershops, churches, and popular culture. The work was awarded the 2005 W.E.B. DuBois book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. It is also the winner of the 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology.

Harris-Lacewell's writings have been published in the "Chicago Tribune", "Los Angeles Times", "Crain's Chicago Business" and "Newsday". She has provided commentary for NBC News, Fox News, Showtime, HBO, Black Enterprise, National Public Radio and other radio and print sources.

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* [http://www.melissaharrislacewell.com Melissa Harris-Lacewell official page]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/14/race_and_gender_in_presidential_politics Race and Gender in Presidential Politics: A Debate Between Gloria Steinem and Melissa Harris-Lacewell]
* [http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05182007/profile.html PBS interview]