October 28, 2024

Scholars’ Circle – Election by gerrymandering and a tribute to Professor Philip Zimbardo – October 27, 2024

58 minutes

First, we discuss gerrymandering and redistricting and what it means for the upcoming elections on First Tuesday of November 2024.

Christian Gross is the professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southern California. He is also the academic director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. He is the author of Congress in Black and White, Race and Representation in Washington at Home, and co-author of numerous pieces, including campaign finance transparency affects legislators election outcomes and behavior.

Jonathan Cervas he’s assistant teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s the co-author of the forthcoming Partisan Gerrymandering Cases and State Supreme Courts in the 2020s redistricting Round and also has served in many roles as a consultant on redistricting, including the special master who drew the New York state and congressional maps for 2022.

Then, we pay tribute to Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the infamous Stanford experiments. He died at home in San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2024 he was 91 in San Francisco. This excerpt is from his interview with Scholars’ Circle in Feb. of 2016. You can find his full interview here.

Philip Zimbardo was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University and *core faculty at Palo Alto University. He is the creator of the The Stanford Prison Experiment. He authored numerous publications including The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Psychology and Life, and The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence.

This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.

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