Dr. Diana Mutz

Biography

Diana Mutz is the Samuel Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. Her research primarily focuses on public opinion, political psychology, and mass political behavior, with particular emphasis on political communication. Mutz has received several prestigious awards, including the Lifetime Career Achievement Award in Political Communication from the American Political Science Association in 2021. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in the same year and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Mutz has held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment. She has published numerous articles in leading academic journals, and her book 'Impersonal Influence: Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes' was awarded the Robert Lane Prize in 2004. Mutz's other notable works include 'Hearing Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy' and 'In-Your-Face Politics: Consequences of Uncivil Media'. She has also served as a co-Principal Investigator for the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences project, which aims to foster methodological innovation in social sciences. Mutz's teaching experience includes positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ohio State University, and her education includes a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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