Andrew Johnson, Ph.D.

Andrew obtained their Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2022. At UCSB, he graduated with an emphasis in Global Studies and taught for the Black Studies and Sociology Departments. He is currently a Lecturer at Gonzaga University, where he will be teaching courses in American politics, political theory, and policing. He has also served as a Visiting Fellow at Philipps-University Marburg and a Visiting Professor at Seattle University and Loyola Marymount University. He has a MA in Philosophy from Louisiana State University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Maine. Once upon a time, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Husson University, an English Professor at Guangxi University, and a Professor of Philosophy at Beijing Huijia International School. 

Andrew specializes in political theory, with a particular focus upon the history of police institutions and contemporary social movements seeking to diminish their political power. He is in the process of writing a book tentatively entitled Theses on the History of Police. His book examines historical narratives and slogans surrounding the formation and development of police institutions. Their research intervenes into contemporary debates about police history based upon the belief that debates surrounding historical narratives and activist slogans will challenge received wisdom and transform deeply held common sense beliefs. His writing upon police is guided by on-going within-movement debates surrounding police power by police and prison abolitionists. This book project thus aspires to be an example of engaged theory and social movement driven research.