Stanford Law School Professor Nathaniel Persily, JD ’98, was recognized today as one of 33 winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.

The new fellows, who were selected from about 200 nominees nationwide, will each receive $200,000 to support research focused on their studies in the social sciences and humanities.

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“Technology is changing our democracy in fundamental ways, and our traditional models of political institutions, as well as the laws that regulate them, need to be reformed to account for these transformations,” said Persily, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law.

“Nate Persily is perfectly situated to take on this ambitious project. He is an insightful scholar of our democratic system, and at the same time is admired as an honest broker in debates over its future. I can think of no one better positioned to predict how technology, data science and evolving media platforms will change elections in the future, and what we must do to preserve our democratic values,” said M. Elizabeth Magill, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean at Stanford Law School.