Diana C. Mutz

Diana C. Mutz holds the Samuel A. Stouffer Chair in Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania where she also serves as Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. She lives with numerous pets including birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, as well as a few invertebrates.

Mutz served as founding co-PI of Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), an interdisciplinary infrastructure project that continues to promote methodological innovation across the social sciences. This project received the Warren Mitofsky Innovator Award in 2007.

In 2011, Mutz received the Lifetime Career Achievement Award in Political Communication from the American Political Science Association. She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015, and a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship in 2016. Most recently, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.