Andrea Y. Simpson

Andrea Simpson is the Associate Dean of Thriving, Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. Simpson has expertise in the politics of race, environmental justice, intersectionality, and social movements. Her most recent publications appeared in the International Journal of Humanities, Arts, and Computing on spatial analysis and in The North Meridian Review: A Journal of Culture and Scholarship on the depiction of Black political ideology and identity in the film “One Night in Miami.”

The Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association named her first book, The Tie that Binds (New York University Press, 1998), the “Best Book of 1998 on Racial Identity.”  In 2009, the Women’s Caucus of the American Political Science Association awarded her the “Woman of Color Professional Achievement Award.”