Kimberley S. Johnson is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. Johnson was previously the Director of the Barnard-Columbia Urban Studies Program and EBH Chair in Urban Studies and Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University.Kimberley is currently working on a new book: The Rise and Fall of Chocolate City: Oakland, Newark, and the Future of Metropolitan America. The book explores changing demographic shifts in inner cities and traces the impact of these shifts on local and national politics.Some of her recent work can be see here:Black Suburbanization: American Dream or the New Banlieue?” The Cities Papers, Social Science Research Council, July 2014 http://citiespapers.ssrc.org/black-suburbanization-american-dream-or-the-new-banlieue/Johnson is also the author of two books: Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Pre-Brown South (Oxford, 2010) and Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism 1877-1929 (Princeton, 2006). Her research focuses on the intersections between American political development, urban and metropolitan politics, federalism and intergovernmental relations, race and ethnic politics, bureaucracy and public policy. She was a past Term Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Research on African American Studies. Johnson was an Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford and an Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London.