Danielle Wiggins
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Yale University, 2012; Ph.D., Emory University, 2018. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2019-.
Profile
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
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Research Summary
African American History; United States History; Political History; 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
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May 29, 2020
Caltech's new assistant history professor brings a focus on recent African American history