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Danielle Wiggins

Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Yale University, 2012; Ph.D., Emory University, 2018. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2019-.
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Danielle Wiggins is a scholar of modern African American politics and culture and the history of the United States since 1970. Her current research examines the intersections between the development of post-civil rights Black politics and the emergent "New" Democratic Party between the mid-1970s and early 1990s.

In her forthcoming manuscript, she investigates debates and policies concerning crime, Black families, and employment in Atlanta to trace the development of a reformist "Politics of Black Excellence" among Black Democrats in the post-civil rights era. Her writing has been featured in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of African American History, Black Perspectives, Atlanta Studies, and the Washington Post's "Made By History."

At Caltech, she teaches courses on Black freedom movements since Emancipation as well as recent African American and United States history.

Research Summary
African American History; United States History; Political History; History of Capitalism; Black Studies

Featured News

History's Echoes in Black Politics
May 18, 2022
Danielle Wiggins, assistant professor of history, has received two fellowships to complete a book that examines how Black politicians and civic leaders drew from politics of the past during the 1980s and 1990s.
The Election Experts
November 02, 2020
Caltech political scientists, historians, computational social scientists, and data scientists examine the systems, policies, and technologies that underlie elections and other democratic processes.
A Conversation with Danielle Wiggins
May 29, 2020
Caltech's new assistant history professor brings a focus on recent African American history
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