Politics & Elections
What do voters today care about? What motivates voters to shift parties or change their views? What is the impact of increasingly hostile political rhetoric? Annenberg faculty and students aim to understand the forces shaping civics and government, politics and elections, policy and law. They study how these things change over time, how they impact society, and how to explain them to the rest of us.
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Faculty
Murali Balaji, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program
Eran Ben-Porath, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program
Dwayne Booth
Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program
Riana M. Brown, Ph.D.
Joan Bossert Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Xanni Brown, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Polarization Research Lab
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.
Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication & Democracy
Stephanie L. DeMora, Ph.D.
Arlin M. and Neysa Adams Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center
David Eisenhower, J.D.
Director, Institute for Public Service
Emily Falk, Ph.D.
Vice Dean, Annenberg School for Communication
Bita Fayaz-Farkhad, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Social Action Lab
Natalie Fenton, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Communication
Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.
Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication
Daniel J. Hopkins, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Albert R. Hunt
Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program
Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.
Presidential Associate Professor
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Alon P. Kraitzman, Ph.D.
Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Yphtach Lelkes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
Matthew Levendusky, Ph.D.
Penny and Robert A. Fox Director of the Fels Institute of Government, School of Arts & Sciences
Marjorie Margolies
Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program
Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D.
Frances Yates Professor Emeritus of Communication
Danaë Metaxa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D.
Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication
Wazhmah Osman, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk and Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Victor Pickard, Ph.D.
C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy
Vincent Price, Ph.D.
Provost Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Scott Reich, J.D.
Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program
Yoel Roth
Knight Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk
Philip Tetlock, Ph.D.
Leonore Annenberg University Professor of Psychology and Management, Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences
Hendrik Theine, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC)
Ken Winneg, Ph.D.
Managing Director of Survey Research, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Guobin Yang, Ph.D.
Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology
Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, School of Arts and Sciences
Malav Kanuga, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality and Change Center
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication
Dannagal G. Young, Ph.D.
Visiting Sabbatical Scholar, Annenberg Public Policy CenterGraduate Students
Chloe (Jae-Kyung) Ahn
Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science
Nicholas Dias
Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science
Tom W. Etienne
Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science
Emilie Grybos
Doctoral Student
Tyler Leigh
Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science
Kirsten O. Lydic
Doctoral Student
Lizzie Martin
Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science
Nya Mbock
Doctoral Student
Adetobi Moses
Doctoral Student
Farrah Rahaman
Doctoral Student
Shane Sheehy
Doctoral Candidate
Alex Tolkin
Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science
Sam Wolken
Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science