Shanto Iyengar

Shanto Iyengar

Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communication
Director, Undergraduate Studies
Professor of Political Science
Director of the Political Communication Lab.

Rm.440 McClatchy Hall
(650) 723-5509
siyengar@stanford.edu
pcl.stanford.edu/~siyengar

Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays
1 pm - 2:30pm

 

Shanto Iyengar teaches courses on political campaigns and mass media effects.  His research has been published in several journals including American Political Science Review, Communication Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Public Opinion Quarterly.  Iyengar also contributes regularly to Washingtonpost.com.

Iyengar's books include Media Politics:  A Citizen's Guide, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate, Do the Media Govern?, Explorations in Political Psychology, The Media Game, Is Anyone Responsible: How Television Frames Political Issues, and News That Matters:  Television and American Opinion.

Iyengar received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa in 1973. He was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral training fellowship in 1982 to study social psychology at Yale University . Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Iyengar taught at the University of California , Los Angeles .