Daniel Hopkins Named Julie and Martin Franklin Presidential Professor of Political Science

Daniel Hopkins, Professor of Political Science, has been named Julie and Martin Franklin Presidential Professor of Political Science. A leading scholar of American politics whose research emphasizes racial and ethnic politics, state and local politics, and political behavior, Hopkins is the author of two books and numerous scholarly articles, and his research has received support from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. His book, The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized, won two awards including the American Political Science Association’s 2023 Doris Graber Award for best book on political communication in the past 10 years. Hopkins holds secondary appointments at the Annenberg School for Communication and School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is co-coordinator of the Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative and has written about U.S. politics for the website FiveThirtyEight.com since 2014.
 
The Julie and Martin Franklin Family Foundation, Inc., Julie Hinds Franklin, C’87, and Martin Ellis Franklin, C’86, parents, established this endowed professorship in 2021. At Penn, Julie is a member of the Social Policy & Practice (SP2) Board of Advisors, the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, and co-chair of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy Advisory Board. Martin is a former member of the Athletics Board of Advisors, and they both are actively involved with their class reunions and served on the Parent Leadership Committee. In addition to endowing the professorship, they have generously supported Penn over the years, including supporting undergraduate scholarships, athletics, SP2, and the Basser Center at the Abramson Cancer Center.