Dr. Jordie Davies is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California Irvine. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the UCI Culture and Theory Ph.D. Program.

Jordie’s research and writing interests include Black politics and political thought, US social movements, solidarity, and Black feminism. Her research agenda focuses on the influence of social movements on political attitudes, culture, and civic engagement.

Jordie’s book project, Alienated Activism: The Process and Promise of Black Social Movements, proposes the framework “Alienated Activism” as a new structural model of Black social movements. She focuses on the emergence of the Black Lives Matter mass movement and its contributions to the long Black freedom struggle.

Her research is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the APSA Early Career Scholars Grant, Berkeley’s Center on Democracy and Organizing, and she was awarded the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Jordie has published research and review essays in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal for the Social Sciences; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Politics, Groups, and Identities; Social Science Quarterly; Contemporary Political Theory; Ideology, Theory, Practice; and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Jordie also writes a culture and politics newsletter, part and parcel.

Jordie was previously a postdoctoral scholar in the P3 Lab at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. Jordie also holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. She received a BA in Political Science from Emory University, in Atlanta, GA, with a minor in Educational Studies.

"Part of my responsibility— as a witness— was to move as largely and freely as possible, to write the story, and to get it out."
— Baldwin