Dr. Andrene Wright-Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Black Politics in the African American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wright-Johnson is also a faculty affiliate in the Political Science department, the University of Wisconsin Election Research Center and a Senior Research specialist at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She defended her dissertation on September, 2022 from Northwestern University and served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University, specializing in urban politics and political behavior at the intersection of race, gender, and class. She primarily focuses on producing work that centers the voices of Black women and girls – perspectives that are often pushed to the margins of both race and gendered scholarship.
Before Madison, Wright-Johnson’s dissertation was awarded the Byran Jackson Dissertation award on Minority Politics by the Urban and Local Politics section of APSA (2022) and was funded by the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD)(2021). Her other scholarship has been supported by the Center for American Women and Politics (2021) and served as a former Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior’s (EPOVB) Early Career fellow.
Wright holds a Master of Arts and a Doctorate in Philosophy in Political Science from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and African American studies from CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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