Andra GillespieAssociate Professor (Political Science) and Graduate Faculty of Emory SociologyDirector of The James Weldon Johnson Institute

• PhD in Political Science, Yale University, 2005
• MPh in Political Science, Yale University, 2002
• MA in African American Studies and Political Science, Yale University, 2001
• BA in Government & Foreign Affairs and African American Studies, University of Virginia, 1999

Andra Gillespie courses and research cover African American Politics, particularly the politics of the post-Civil Rights generation of leadership, and political participation, in which she uses experimental methods of inquiry.

Dr. Gillespie is also the Director of The James Weldon Johnson Institute.

• SOC 585: Racial and Ethnic Politics in the US