Diana C. Mutz

Diana C. Mutz is the Samuel Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. Mutz formerly served on the faculty at Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a Senior Fellow in Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Mutz received her BS (1984) from Northwestern University and her PhD (1988) from Stanford University. Mutz studies American politics and public opinion. Her work is published in numerous journals, as well as seven award-winning books. These include Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy, and most recently, Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade, which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association. Mutz co-founded Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), an interdisciplinary infrastructure project sponsored by the National Science Foundation that had, until recently, been in continuous operation for 24 years. For promoting methodological innovation across the social sciences, TESS received the Warren Mitofsky Innovators Award and the American Sociological Association’s Methodology Award. Mutz’s honors include a Lifetime Career Achievement Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and membership in the American Academy of Arts of Sciences. Past service includes President of the Midwest Political Science Association, Editor in Chief of Political Behavior, co-Chair of the Social Science Research Council’s Media and Democracy Initiative. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Princeton University Press Political Behavior Series, the Board of the American National Election Studies, and on international scientific advisory boards in both Norway and Finland.