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Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell is an associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton. She is the author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, (Princeton 2004), which demonstrates how African Americans develop political ideas through ordinary conversations in places like barbershops, churches, and popular culture, and which won both the 2005 W.E.B Du Bois book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. She is at work on a new book: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough. It is an examination of the connections between shame, sadness and strength in African American women's politics.
In addition to scholarly publications, Professor Harris-Lacewell's writings have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Crain's Chicago Business and New York Newsday. She has provided expert commentary on U.S. elections, racial issues, religious questions and gender issues for NBC, Fox, Chicago Public Television, Showtime, Black Enterprise, National Public Radio and many other radio and print sources around the country.
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