This page is meant to be a resource both for those familiar with the literature on dialogue across difference and those who are new to the subject. The Talking Across Difference reading list is composed of texts, scholarly journals, and news articles that are essential to understanding this work as well as recent reports detailing current research.
Reports
- Academic Leaders Task Force on Campus Free Expression. “Campus Free Expression: A New Roadmap” Published by the Bipartisan Policy Center (2021), this report explores factors that have made free expression challenging on college campuses and offers recommendations about fostering a campus culture of robust intellectual exchange, open inquiry, and free expression.
- “Free Speech and Inclusion on Campus: Guide for Discussion Leaders” A report by the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (2018) to support building robust dialogue on college campuses.
- “Self-Censorship or Just Being Nice” A report written by Niehaus, Elizabeth Niehaus and published by the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, University of California (2021) that explores college students’ moral reasoning around free expression issues in the classroom.
Texts
- Boatright, Robert G., Timothy J. Shaffer, Sarah Sobieraj, and Dannagal Goldthwaite Young eds. A Crisis of Civility?: Political Discourse and Its Discontents. New York. Routledge and Taylor & Francis, 2019.
- Chemerinski, Erwin, and Howard Gillman. Free Speech on Campus. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
- Levendusky, Matthew, and Dominik A Stecula. We Need to Talk: How Cross-Party Dialogue Reduces Affective Polarization (Elements in Experimental Political Science). Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Shaffer, Timothy J., Nicholas V. Longo, Idit Manosevitch, and Maxine S. Thomas eds. Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement. Michigan State University Press, 2017.
Articles and Journals
- Allen, Danielle. “What is Education For?” in the Boston Review (2016).
- Bennion, Elizabeth A. “Civil Discourse: Helping Students to Become Conversation Partners” in Political Science Educator Volume 27, issue 2 (February 8, 2024)
- Brooks, Arthur C. “Empathize with your Political Foe.” New York Times, January 21, 2018.
- Garcia, Lynne Chandler & Stacy Ulbig. 2023. “Building Political Discourse Skills: Students as Teachers.” Journal of Political Science Education, DOI: 10.1080/15512169.2023.2267150
- Schwartz, Lara, and Harsha Mudaliar. “Not So Fast on Campus Self-Censorship” in Inside Higher Ed (2022).
- Terenzini, Patrick T. “Rethinking Effective Student Learning Experiences” in Inside Higher Ed (2020).
- White, Lori. “President Speaks: Why Free Speech and Diversity and Inclusion go hand-in-hand on Campus” in Higher Ed Dive (2022).
