Daniel J. Hopkins, who joined Penn Arts & Sciences this fall as an associate professor of political science, received two awards during the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), held September 3-6 in San Francisco, California. Dr. Hopkins was honored with the Clarence Stone Award, given by the Urban Politics Section of the APSA to a scholar who is “making a significant impact on the field of urban politics.” He also received the 2015 Warren Miller Prize for best article published in the journal Political Analysis, for “Casual Interference in Conjoint Analysis: Understanding Multi-Dimensional Choices via Stated Preference Experiments” with coauthors Jens Hainmueller and Teppei Yamamoto.

Dr. Hopkins’ research centers on American politics, with a special emphasis on racial and ethnic politics, local politics, political behavior and research methods. He is the author of nearly 30 papers and has a secondary appointment at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication. He received his doctorate in government from Harvard University and before coming to Penn was an associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.