Professor of Political Science Deva Woodly was interviewed about the social movement that stemmed from the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Political Science
Deva Woodly
Professor of Political Science
Rm 313/Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs - 111 Thayer Street
Areas of Expertise
Race Ethnicity and Politics, Methods, Political Economy, Democratic Theory, Political Communication
Office Hours
Immediately before and after class or by appointment only
Biography
Deva Woodly is a Professor at Brown University. She is the author of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements (Oxford 2021) and The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance (Oxford 2015). She has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as well as the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. Her research covers a variety of topics, from media and communication to political understandings of economics, to race and imagination, and social movements. In each case, she focuses on the impacts of public discourse on the political meanings of social and economic issues as well as how those common understandings change democratic practice and public policy. Her work centers the perspective of ordinary citizens and political challengers with an eye toward how the demos impacts political action and shapes political possibilities.