The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The 2024 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows marks the start of the program’s focus on developing a body of research around political polarization in the United States.
The award is for a period of up to two years and its anticipated result is a book or major study. The criteria prioritize the originality and promise of the research, its potential impact on the field, and the scholar’s plans for communicating the findings to a broad audience. These scholars are working to help Americans understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen forces of cohesion.
Delia S. Baldassarri
Silver Professor of Sociology, New York University
Lisa A. Bryant
Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science, California State University, Fresno
Johanna Dunaway
Professor of Political Science and Research Director, Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship
D. Sunshine Hillygus
Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Brett L. M. Levy
Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Practice, University at Albany, State University of New York
David Broockman
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Joshua D. Clinton
Abby and Jon Winkelried Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Bernard L. Fraga
Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Coordinator of the Latinx Studies Initiative, Emory University
Taeku Lee
Bae Family Professor of Government, Harvard University
Neil Malhotra
Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Lilliana Mason
Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer McCoy
Regent’s Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
Neil A. O’Brian
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Julianna Pacheco
Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
Markus Prior
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton Universityc
Ananya Sen
Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Mara Suttmann-Lea
Associate Professor of American Politics, Connecticut College
Dara M. Wald
Associate Professor of Environmental Communication, Texas A&M University
David N. Wasserman
Senior Editor and Elections Analyst, The Cook Political Report
Angie Maxwell
Diane Blair Endowed Chair in Southern Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of Arkansas
Elizabeth McKenna
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Molly Offer-Westort
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Associate Professor of History, The New School
Brian F. Schaffner
Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies, Tufts University
Seema Sohi
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Chris Tausanovitch
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Elise Wang
Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton
Hajar Yazdiha
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California
