Markus Prior, associate professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and former director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, was awarded a Joan Shorenstein Fellowship from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

During the fall 2016 semester, the fellows will research, write and engage with Harvard students and faculty while searching for solutions to the problems facing society in the fields of media, politics and public policy.

Prior is the author of “Post-Broadcast Democracy,” which analyzes how broadcast television, cable television and the internet have influenced politics in the United States. While a fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Prior will work on a new book titled “Stability and Development of Political Interest,” which focuses on how people develop an interest in politics.