Faculty

Sean J. Westwood
Director
Associate Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Yphtach Lelkes
Co-Director
Associate Professor of Communication and Political Science
University of Pennsylvania

Shanto Iyengar
Co-Director
William Robertson Coe Professor and Professor of Political Science and of Communication
Stanford University
Staff

Matt Wetzel, PhD
Data Scientist
Dartmouth College
Postdoctoral Fellows

Derek Holliday
Postdoctoral Fellow
Polarization Research Lab
Stanford University

Marc Jacob
Postdoctoral Fellow
Polarization Research Lab
Stanford University

Xanni Brown
Postdoctoral Fellow
Polarization Research Lab
University of Pennsylvania

Gavin Ploger
Postdoctoral Fellow
Polarization Research Lab
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Students

Nicholas Dias
Graduate Student
University of Pennsylvania

Neil Fasching
Graduate Student
University of Pennsylvania

Nico Studen
Graduate Student
Stanford University
Visiting Fellows

Tadeáš Celý
Fulbright Fellow (2023-2024)
Masaryk University
University of Vienna
Undergraduate Researchers

Brian Zheng
Presidential Scholar (2022-2023)
Dartmouth College
Advisory Board Members

David Brady
Professor of Political Economy and
Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution
Stanford University

Lauren Davenport
Associate Professor of Political Science
Stanford University

James Druckman
Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Communication Studies
Northwestern University

Morris P. Fiorina
Wendt Family Professor and Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution
Stanford University

Justin Grimmer
Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution
Stanford University

Daniel Hopkins
Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Jerit
Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Samara Klar
Associate Professor of Government
University of Arizona

Matthew Levendusky
Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania

Diana Mutz
Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication
University of Pennsylvania

Neil Malhotra
Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy
Stanford University

Betsy Levy Paluck
Professor of Psychology & Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

Margaret Roberts
Professor of Political Science
UC San Diego

Erin Rossiter
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame

Brandon Stewart
Associate Professor of Sociology
Princeton University

Emily West
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Pittsburgh
Global Advisors

Sumitra Badrinathan
Assistant Professor, School of International Service
American University

Anna Grzymala-Busse
Professor of Political Science
and Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution
Stanford University

Jeremy Ferwerda
Assistant Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

Noam Gidron
Senior Lecturer of Political Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Virginia Rocha
Max Weber Fellow
European University Institute

F. Daniel Hidalgo
Associate Professor
of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology

Monika Nalepa
Processor of Political Science
University of Chicago

Lior Sheffer
Lecturer of Political Science
Tel Aviv University

Chagai Weiss
Postdoctoral Fellow
King Center on Global Development
Stanford University