Dr. Ashley C.J. Daniels (she/her) is a graduate of the Political Science department at Howard University. She conducts research in the areas of Black Politics, Black feminist and Womanist theory, public opinion, and popular culture. Her dissertation, “Unlocking the Power of the Sister(hood) Vote: Exploring the Opinions and Motivations of NPHC Sorority Black Women Supporting Black Women Candidates” examines how Black sorority women evaluate Black women candidates. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, the Washington and Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper, ForHarriet, the PHILLIS Journal for Research on African American Women, Political Science Today, and the National Review of Black Politics.
She has also presented her research at several national and regional conferences, including the National Conference for Black Political Scientists, the Black Doctoral Network, the HBCU Conference on Retention, the American Political Science Association, Black Women and Girls Symposium, and Delta Days in the Nation’s Capital.
She is a recipient of several awards including the Organization for Research on Women and Communication, the National Conference for Black Political Scientists, Howard University, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Dr. Daniels served for nearly eight years as an administrator with the Delta Research and Educational Foundation. In 2020, she was named as a Public Scholarship Fellow for the American Political Science Association. In 2021, she was selected as an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow.
Presently, she is the Project Director for the Black Girls Vote Research Network; a 2022 SNF Agora Visiting Fellow with Johns Hopkins University; and an adjunct professor of Women and Gender Studies at Georgetown University. She is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and currently resides in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
