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Nadia E. Brown is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University, where she serves as Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and an affiliate in the Black Studies Program. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University in 2010, holds a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, and is an alumna of Howard University from 2004. Prior to joining Georgetown in 2021, she was a University Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University.

Dr. Brown’s scholarship centers on identity politics, legislative studies, Black women’s studies, and intersectionality, with a particular emphasis on Black women’s politics. She is the author or editor of several award-winning books, including Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 2014), recipient of the 2015 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the Anna Julia Cooper Award from the Association for the Study of Black Women and Politics; Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (co-authored with Danielle Casavant Lemi, 2021); Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics (edited with Sarah Allen Gershon, Routledge, 2016); Body Politics (edited, Routledge, 2019); and Me Too Political Science (edited, Routledge, 2019). Her over 50 peer-reviewed articles appear in journals such as Du Bois Review, Politics, Groups, and Identities, PS: Political Science & Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, with key works including “Political Participation of Women of Color: An Intersectional Analysis” (2014) and “Intersectional Linked Fate and Political Representation” (2019). Brown has garnered significant recognition, including the 2024 American Political Science Association Women’s Caucus for Political Science Ralph Bunche Career Achievement Award and a $1,000,794 National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant (2020) as co-PI for the #MeTooPoliSci project combating sexual harassment in political science. She previously served as lead editor of Politics, Groups, and Identities, contributes to The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post, and is a founding board member of Women Also Know Stuff.