Joe Lowndes is a scholar of American politics, with a specific focus on right-wing politics, populism, and race. Among other publications, he is the author of From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism (Yale University Press), and co-author with Daniel Martinez HoSang of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press).
Along with scholarly work, he is published frequently in public venues including the Washington Post and The New Republic. His work has been cited in The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications; and he has been interviewed on National Public Radio, MSNBC, BBC Radio 4, and Al Jazeera, among others.
He is currently co-editing a volume titled The Politics of the Multiracial Right (New York University Press in 2025).; and he is at work on another book, Adventures in Post-Democracy, which seeks to explain the growing authoritarian trend in American political culture through a chronicle of his ethnographic work in right-wing spaces over the last decade (University of California Press 2025).
Lowndes is a Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College. Before coming to Hunter, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He holds a PhD in Political Science from The New School for Social Research.
