Deva Woodly is the author of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements (Oxford 2022) and The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance (Oxford 2015). Her next project, The Politics of Futurity, will be an interdisicplinary edited volume exmaining the horizons of political ideas and organization in the 21st century. Her work spans the subdisciplines of American Politics, Social Movements, Black Politics, Political Economy and Democratic Theory. Her Book Reckoning received the best book (2022) award from the Race and Ethnic Politics section of American Political Science Association. Over the course of her career she has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as well as the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. She has published in Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Public Choice, and Dissent, among others, and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Political Sciecne. She received her BA from the University of Virginia and her PhD from the University of Chicago.
