Daniel Gillion, University of Pennsylvania assistant professor of political science, has won the American Political Science Association Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section’s 2014 Best Book Award for The Political Power of Protest: Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy.

Gillion’s research interest focuses on racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, public opinion and the American presidency.  

The Political Power of Protest demonstrates the influential role of protest to garner a response from each branch of the federal government, highlighting protest actions as another form of constituent sentiment that should be considered alongside public opinion and voting behavior. 

His research has also been published in the academic journals Electoral Studies and Journal of Politics as well as in the edited volumes of Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior.

In addition to being a faculty member in the political science department at Penn, Gillion is an affiliate faculty member with the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for Asian American Studies Program. Gillion was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University for 2012-2014.