Charles Stewart III elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration

Charles Stewart, III, the Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2025 Class of Academy Fellows.  

Stewart, the Founding Director of the MIT Election Data + Science Lab, is one of 42 leaders receiving Fellowships this year.

Established in 1967,  the Academy – an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization – was chartered by Congress to provide nonpartisan expert advice and to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations. 

“It’s a great honor to have been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration,” Stewart says. “Central to its design is collaboration among academics and government officials, which is critical to addressing major challenges these days, especially in the area of protecting democracy, here and abroad.”

Induction of the new Fellows will occur during the Academy’s 2025 National Conference, which will take place November 2-4 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Fellows will attend a formal ceremony, and the conference will feature prominent Academy Fellows and other experts speaking on key national issues.

Stewart’s research and teaching areas include American politics, congressional politics, elections, and American political development. He is an established leader in the analysis of the performance of election systems and the quantitative assessment of election performance.

Selection of the Academy’s new Fellows follows a rigorous review of the individual’s contributions to the fields of public administration and policy. A Nominating Committee, selected by the Academy’s Board Chair, makes its recommendations to the full Fellowship, which then votes on those individuals nominated to be a Fellow. The individual must have a requisite number of votes before being elected.

The 2025 Class joins more than 1,000 Academy Fellows, including former cabinet officers, members of Congress, governors, mayors and state legislators, as well as prominent scholars, business executives, nonprofit leaders, and public administrators.