[2] Following his PhD, Hutchings accepted a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholarship to conduct research at Yale University from 2000 to 2002.
[2] Upon joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Hutchings published his first book entitled Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics.
[4] He also received a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project "Elite Communications and Racial Group Conflict in the 21st Century" from 2009 to 2011.
[8] Hutchings' work was recognized in 2020 with the Tronstein Award in recognition of "innovative and outstanding teaching of undergraduate students in the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.
[10] In 2022, Hutchings received the Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award[11] and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.