Leah Wright Rigueur is the SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University. Her research expertise includes 20th-century American political and social history, modern African American history, race, politics, civil rights, contemporary social movements, political ideologies and institutions, and the American presidency. She previously served as the Harry S. Truman Associate Professor of American History at Brandeis University, an associate professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University. Wright Rigueur, whose work has been featured in numerous media outlets, is the author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power, which won awards from the New England Historical Association and Southeast Missouri State University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University.