Political Science

Breadcrumb

Karra McCray Gibson

Karra_McCray@brown.edu
CV

Biography

Karra McCray Gibson is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate with research subfields of American Politics and Political Theory. Her research examines ideological differences among members of race-based caucuses. Karra has worked with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies to co-author the 2018 Racial Diversity Among Top U.S. House Staff report and most recently, the Black Representation Among Commissioned Officers in Biden's White House. Karra holds a Masters’s in Black Politics from Howard University and a Bachelor’s in Political Science and English from the University of South Carolina. Twitter: @karramccray 

Awards

2022-23 APSA Public Scholarship Fellow

2022 WINNER:  Continuity of Government Paper Competition hosted by Democracy Fund, the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), and the Ronald Walters Leadership & Public Policy Center. Title:  Loss, Electoral Refusal and the Demobilization of Black Voters.

Recent News

Center for American Women and Politics

WINNER Karra McCray Gibson, Ph.D. candidate, wins 2023 Ruth B. Mandel Dissertation Research Awards

Karra McCray Gibson (Brown University)

The New Congressional Black Caucus: Differentiating Divisions within the CBC

By investigating ideological heterogeneity among the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, this project seeks to understand the interaction between intersectional representation of individual members and the collective voice of the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington.
Read Article