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Kimberley S. Johnson
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Kimberley S. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, joined the faculty of Barnard in January 2000. She has also taught at SUNY/Stony Brook. Before joining the professoriate, she held positions as Project Coordinator at the Center for Urban Policy Research, Columbia University, and as Policy Analyst at Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, Inc., in New York.
At Barnard, Professor Johnson teaches such courses as "American Political Development," "Dynamics of American Politics," "Legislative Process," and "Contemporary Urban Problems." In addition to her teaching duties for the Department of Political Science, she is also affiliated with Barnard's Urban Studies Program.
Professor Johnson's research interests include American political development, bureaucracy and public administration, federalism and intergovernmental relations, urban and local politics, race and ethnic politics.
Professor Johnson's research and scholarship have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Political Science Association, Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the New York State Archives, and the Ford Foundation.
Professor Johnson serves as the Faculty Director for the Guggenheim Summer Internships in Criminal Justice/Crime Prevention at Barnard College.
Selected Publications
Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and Society in the Pre-Brown Era (Oxford University Press, under contract).
Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877-1929, Princeton Studies in American Politics series (Princeton University Press, 2006).
“Jim Crow Reform and the Democratization of the South,” Race and American Political Development, J. Lowndes, J. Novkov and D. Warren, eds. (New York: Routledge, June 2008).
"Community Development Organizations, Participation and Accountability: The Harlem Urban Development Corporation and the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation," Annals: Journal of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Race and Community Development Issue Vol. 594 (July 2004).
"Modernity, Public Administration and the Disappearance of the American States: A Necessary Development?" Administration and Society Vol. 35, No. 2 (Spring 2003).
“Hurricane Katrina, Racial Federalism and the American State: a Tale Foretold?”, The Federal Nation: Perspectives on American Federalism, I. W. Morgan and P. J. Davies eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, under contract).
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EDUCATION:
BA, MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University
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American politics