Diana Mutz was appointed as Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at The University of Pennsylvania in 2003. She is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics in the Annenberg Public Policy Center at The University of Pennsylvania. She serves as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to Penn, she was a professor at The Ohio State University (1999-2003), and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mutz has written numerous books and articles on subjects ranging from media and politics, to public opinion in the law, political psychology, and the impact of television and the internet on the formation of political opinions. She is the author of Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy, (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes (Cambridge University Press, 1998). She is also the co-editor of the volume Political Persuasion and Attitude Change (University of Michigan Press, 1996), and a former editor of Political Behavior.
Her research articles have appeared in journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science and Public Opinion Quarterly. Since 2001, Mutz has served as co-PI of Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), a National Science Foundation-supported initiative that promotes methodological innovation across the social sciences.
Diana Mutz received her B.S. from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her book Impersonal Influence won the 1999 Robert Lane award for the best new book in Political Psychology and the 2004 Doris Graber Prize for the most influential book in Political Communication over the past ten years. Her book Hearing the Other Side was awarded the 2007 Goldsmith Prize from Harvard University. She resides in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, along with her husband, three children and a number of animal species whose peaceful co-existence puts human politics to shame.