Dean's Dialogues: Fall 2024 Series: The U.S. Presidential Election in Perspective

Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis hosts conversations with faculty experts on the U.S. presidential election, on topics ranging from policies to processes, from polarization to persuasion.  Join fellow Yale students to converse together in person and cut through the often divisive effects of online discussions.  

"The Dean’s Dialogue series models respectful, curious, and candid conversation about difficult topics." READ  A space for dialogue: Yale series models civil discussion on hard topics in Yale News.

For the second installment in this series join Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis for a conversation with Dean Heather Gerken and Associate Professor Josh Kalla.

Heather K. Gerken is the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law and is in her second term as Dean of Yale Law School. Dean Gerken is one of the country’s leading experts on constitutional law and election law. A founder of the “nationalist school” of federalism, her work focuses on federalism, diversity, and dissent. She is the first female Dean in the School’s 200-year history.

Hailed as an “intellectual guru” in The New York Times, Dean Gerken’s scholarship has been featured in The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, NPR, The New York Times, and Time. In 2017, Politico Magazine named Dean Gerken one of The Politico 50, a list of idea makers in American politics. Her work on election reform has affected policy at a national level. 

Josh Kalla '14  is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University with a secondary appointment in Statistics and Data Science. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research studies political persuasion, prejudice reduction, and decision-making among voters and political elites, primarily through the use of randomized field experiments.

HOST

Pericles Lewis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University, serves as Dean of Yale College In partnership with other university leaders and faculty members, he is responsible for guiding the curriculum, intellectual life, residential experience, and student affairs of the Yale College community. His goal is to ensure that Yale offers the world’s best undergraduate education.

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