Diana Mutz Elected National Academy of Sciences Councilor

Diana C. Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and the School for Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Council. Mutz is director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at the Annenberg School.

She was elected to the NAS in 2021 and is one of four Councilors elected to three-year terms on the NAS Council, starting in July 2026.

Mutz studies political communication, political psychology, and public opinion, and her research focuses on how the American mass public relates to the political world and how people form opinions on issues and candidates. She received a 2017 Carnegie Fellowship and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research on globalization and public opinion, and in 2011 received the Lifetime Career Achievement Award in Political Communication from the American Political Science Association. In addition to many journal articles, Mutz is the author of “Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade,” “Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political,” “Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy,” and “In Your Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media.”

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and — with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations. Members of the Academy are elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to research. The membership includes approximately 2,650 active members and 550 international members, with a total of 190 members having been awarded Nobel Prizes.