Janet Johnson

Janet Elise Johnson is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Visiting Scholar, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University.  Her books include The Gender of Informal Politics (2018), Gender Violence in Russia (2009) and Living Gender after Communism (2007).  In the last few years, she has published articles in Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Social Policy, Politics & Gender, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Signs: Journals of Women in Culture and Society as well as online in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, Boston Review, and The New Yorker.  Her activism on domestic violence includes training judges working with the Russian American Rule of Law Consortium, serving as an expert for US and Canadian political asylum cases based on domestic violence in Russia, and helping to write a resources guide for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.