Marcus Johnson

University of Maryland.
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Marcus is an assistant professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His work examines racial disparities in political behavior in democracies that are stratified by race. He is particularly interested in how historical and contemporary patterns of racial inequality affect the political behavior of people of African descent in Latin America. He is the author of "Electoral Discrimination: the relationship between skin color and vote-buying" published in the journal of World Politics. He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 2017 and his BA from the University of Maryland College Park in 2011. Marcus served as a President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland during the 2017-2018 academic year.