APSA congratulates this year’s political science scholars elected to the 2025 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program! The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for high-caliber scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses pressing societal challenges. Under the leadership of Carnegie Corporation of New York president Dame Louise Richardson, the 2025 class marks the second year of the program’s renewed emphasis on political polarization—an issue of growing national concern.
Over a three-year period, the Corporation will invest up to $18 million to support research that strengthens democracy and civic life. Each fellowship supports up to two years of work, with an anticipated outcome of a book or major study aimed at reaching broad audiences.
Meet the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellows
This year’s class includes leading political scientists whose research explores civic engagement, democratic backsliding, misinformation, and the social divisions shaping political life in the United States and beyond.
- Amy E. Lerman – Michelle Schwartz Chair and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
- Adam J. Berinsky – Mitsui Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jacob Brown – Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University
- Jonathan Rodden – Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
- Milan Svolik – Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science, Yale University
- Dawn Langan Teele – SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
- Christopher Sebastian Parker – Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
- David S. Meyer – Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine
- Matt Grossmann – Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
These scholars are part of a distinguished cohort investigating the roots and consequences of polarization, working to inform public discourse and support more resilient democratic institutions.