Political Science’s Daniel Hopkins Honored With Two Awards

Daniel J. Hopkins, who joined Penn Arts and 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. 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.

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, most recently “The Hidden American Immigration Consensus: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes toward Immigrants” in the American Journal of Political Science, and “One Language, Two Effects: Partisanship and Responses to Spanish,” in Political Communication. His 2009 article “No Wilder Effect, Never a Whitman Effect: When and Why Polls Mislead about Black and Female Candidates” in Journal of Politics, was discussed in media outlets including ABC News, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and Science.

Hopkins has been associate editor of R&P since 2013, and was a member of the editorial board of the State Politics and Policy Quarterly from 2011-14. He is an occasional blogger at The Monkey Cage and at FiveThirtyEight. He has a secondary appointment at Penn’s  Annenberg School for Communication. He received his doctorate in government from Harvard, and before coming to Penn was an associate professor at Georgetown.