Dan Hopkins's first book, The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized, has been published by the University of Chicago Press (2018).

Named Clarence Stone Scholar by the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association, 2015.

Awarded Society of Political Methodology’s Miller Prize for the best work appearing in Political Analysis in the prior year, with Jens Hainmueller and Teppei Yamamoto, 2015.

Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting BehaviorS ection of the American Political Science Association, 2014.

Awarded Editor’s Choice paper by Political Analysis with Jens Hainmueller and Teppei Yamamoto (2014)

Awarded Best Paper by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association with Jens Hainmueller, 2013.

Winner with Jens Hainmueller and Teppei Yamamoto, Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences Competition, 2013.

Winner, Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences Competition, 2011.

Awarded Best Paper by the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association, with Lee Drutman, 2011.

Awarded Deil Wright Best Paper Award by the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association, 2009.

Winner of the American Political Science Association’s E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American Government, 2008.