Megan Ming Francis

Megan Ming Francis is the G. Alan and Barbara Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and an associate professor of law, societies, and justice at the University of Washington. She is also a Senior Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. Francis specializes in the study of American politics, with broad interests in criminal punishment, Black political activism, philanthropy, and the post-Civil War South. She is the...See more

Megan Ming Francis is the G. Alan and Barbara Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and an associate professor of law, societies, and justice at the University of Washington. She is also a Senior Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. Francis specializes in the study of American politics, with broad interests in criminal punishment, Black political activism, philanthropy, and the post-Civil War South. She is the author of the award-winning book Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State . Francis serves as the editor for the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Elements series at Cambridge University Press. Her research and commentary have been featured on ABC, NPR, the New York Times , LA Times , and the Washington Post , and she has conducted a TED talk with over two million views. Francis is a proud alumnus of Seattle Public Schools, Rice University, and Princeton University, where she received her MA and PhD in politics. See less