Marcus Johnson

Marcus Johnson

Assistant Professor, CUNY Baruch College
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Marcus Johnson (PhD, Princeton University 2017) is an assistant professor of political science at CUNY, Baruch College. He specializes in ethnicity, race, and electoral politics in the Americas. His current work seeks to explain the conspicuous absence of racial appeals to voters in Latin America, despite the increasing visibility and social salience of black identity in the region. His publications include, "Electoral Discrimination: the relationship between skin color and vote buying in Latin America" (forthcoming in World Politics) and "Fluidity, Phenotype, and Afro-Latin Group Consciousness" (forthcoming in The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics). During the 2017-2018 academic year, Professor Johnson held the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Maryland. He joined the faculty at Baruch in the fall of 2018.

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