Amy Black

Dr. Amy E. Black is associate professor of Politics & International Relations at Wheaton College (IL). She has wide research and teaching interests in the fields of American Politics and Political Behavior. She served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Rep. Melissa A. Hart during the 2000-2001 academic year.

Dr. Black's publications include Beyond Left and Right: Helping Christians Make Sense of American Politics (Baker Books, 2008), a resource to help Christians better understand the American political system and prepare them for political conversations and more active political participation. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Government from Claremont McKenna College and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.

Articles by Amy Black