Daniel Hopkins, Professor of Political Science, is the 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, Dr. 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 (University of Chicago Press, 2018) won two awards including the American Political Science Association’s 2023 Doris Graber Award for the best book on political communication in the past 10 years. Dr. Hopkins holds secondary appointments at the Annenberg School for Communication and School for Engineering and Applied Science. He is the co-coordinator of the Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative, and has written about U.S. politics for the website FiveThirtyEight.com since 2014.