Diana Mutz - Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication 235 Stiteler Hall Phone: 898-6498 Email: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it B.S., Northwestern University M.A., Stanford University Ph.D., Stanford University Curriculum Vitae (PDF) (Word)

Diana C. Mutz, PhD Stanford University, teaches and does research on public opinion, political psychology and mass political behavior, with a particular emphasis on political communication. At Penn she holds the Samuel A. Stouffer Chair in Political Science and Communication, and also serves as Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. She has published articles in a variety of academic journals including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Politics and Journal of Communication. She is also the author of Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes (Cambridge University Press, 1998), a book awarded the Robert Lane Prize for the Best Book in Political Psychology by the American Political Science Association. She served as past editor of Political Behavior, and currently serves as co-PI of Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), an interdisciplinary infrastructure project that promotes methodological innovation across the social sciences. Professor Mutz is also part of the graduate group in the Population Studies Center and in the Department of Psychology at Penn. Before coming to Penn, Professor Mutz taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Ohio State University.