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POLITICS PROFESSOR AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL IS “MORTAL ENEMIES” WITH TAVIS SMILEY AND FAMILIAR WITH PRINCETON DRAMA QUEENS.

Name: Melissa Harris-Lacewell

Occupation on Campus: Associate Professor of Politics

Department: Politics

Hometown: Charlottesville, VA

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? My uncle, Wesley Harris. He was the first black man to receive a PhD in engineering from Princeton. He’s been on faculty at MIT for decades and he is my dad’s twin brother. My dad is also a professor. When they are together they are like carbon copies of each other. They crack me up. Uncle Wes is the best.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? I read trashy gossip magazine, but only on the elliptical machine. It is my motivation to go to the gym.