Andrew Janusz is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida. His work focuses on racial identity, political behavior, and political representation in Latin America’s emerging democracies. In his current book project, he investigates why Afro-Brazilians not elected to Brazil’s Congress in proportion to their population size, and how their exclusion affects the representation of Afro-Brazilians’ policy interests.  His book project substantially extend the findings he published in a peer-reviewed article in Politics, Groups, and Identities.