American political development, urban and metropolitan politics, race and ethnic politics
Kimberley Johnson
Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis; Professor of Wilf Family Department of Politics; Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis
Education
- 1998 Ph.D. in Political Science, Columbia University
- 1989 A.B. in Urban Studies, Columbia University
American Political Science Association, Urban Affairs Association, Social Science History Association, Metropolitan Studies
Fellowships/Honors
- 2015-2017 Tow Professorship for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners (Barnard College)
- 2013-2014 Mellon Foundation
- 2007-2010 Associate Member, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
- 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities
- 1992; 1996 Ford Foundation
Kimberley Johnson is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Affiliate Faculty Member of the Wagner School of New York University. Johnson’s research focuses on American and urban political development, urban and local politics, and race and ethnic politics. Johnson is the author of two books, Reforming Jim Crow (2010) and Governing the American State (2007) and numerous articles on American political development and its intersection with racial and ethnic politics. Current research projects focus on African American urban and suburban politics. Johnson is completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled, Dark Concrete, exploring the development of black power urbanism in Newark and East Orange, New Jersey and Oakland and East Palo Alto, California.
Publications
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Governing the American State
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Reforming Jim Crow
Contact Information
Kimberley Johnson
Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis; Professor of Wilf Family Department of Politics; Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis kj37@nyu.edu 20 Cooper Square, 4th FloorRoom 442
New York, NY 10003