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Vesla Weaver

Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Vesla  Weaver

Vesla Mae Weaver is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She has contributed to scholarly debates around the persistence of racial inequality, colorism in the United States, the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in prisons, and the consequences of rising economic polarization.

Publications:

Project Title: The Faces of American Democracy

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