Elizabeth Jordie Davies writes about Black life, feminism, and social movements.

She 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. Her research agenda focuses on the influence of social movements on political attitudes, culture, and civic engagement.

Jordie’s book, Alienated Activism: The Process and Promise of Black Social Movements, proposes the framework “Alienated Activism” as a new 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 & Organizing, and she was awarded the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Jordie has published research in Urban Affairs Review; RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal for the Social Sciences; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Politics, Groups, and Identities; and Social Science Quarterly. Jordie also writes a culture and politics newsletter, part and parcel.

Jordie was previously a postdoc in the P3 Lab at Johns Hopkins. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. She received a BA in Political Science from Emory University, in Atlanta, GA.

"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