Susan Carol Stokes (born 1959) is an American political scientist and the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science department of the University of Chicago,[1][2] and the faculty director of the Chicago Center on Democracy.[3][4] Her academic focus is on Latin American politics, comparative politics, and how democracies function in developing countries.[1][5] Stokes is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2] She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.[6]