Diana Mutz

Diana C. Mutz, the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics, is the 2017 recipient of the Doris Graber Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for her book In Your Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media. This award recognizes the best book published on political communication in the last 10 years.

Dr. Mutz studies public opinion, political psychology and mass political behavior, with an emphasis on political communication. She recently received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2017 Carnegie Fellowship to fund her continued research.

In Your Face Politics reviews research on both the benefits and the drawbacks of “in-your-face” media, such as TV shows in which politicians and pundits yell at one another.