Dr Richard Johnson
writer; lecturer in US politics, Queen Mary, University of London; author, The End of the Second Reconstruction: Obama, Trump, and the crisis of civil rights

Dr Richard Johnson is lecturer in US politics at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously, he was a lecturer at Lancaster University. He has held visiting research and teaching positions at Yale University, Cambridge University, and Beijing Foreign Studies University. He studied at Cambridge (Jesus) and Oxford (Nuffield). His research focuses on race and representation in the United States. He is the author of numerous academic articles and two books on US politics: The End of the Second Reconstruction: Obama, Trump, and the crisis of civil rights (2020) and US Foreign Policy: domestic roots and international impact(2021). He has also written widely on the UK Labour Party and its history, with articles published in Tribune, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Jacobin, and UnHerd.

He is, with Yuan Yi Zhu, co-editor of Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom, published by Bloomsbury/Hart in 2023.

Follow Richard on Twitter: @richardmarcj

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