Andrew Johnson
Biography
Andrew Johnson was a research associate with CRCC’s Religious Competition and Creative Innovation (RCCI) initiative. He previously was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro and producers of documentary film on Pentecostalism inside of prison in Rio de Janeiro. Andrew conducted the research inside of Rio de Janeiro’s prisons as member of CRCC’s Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative and is interested in studying religious practice on the margins of society.
Andrew received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota in the fall of 2012. Before entering the doctoral program at Minnesota, he served as a foreign service officer in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and worked at the U.S. Embassies in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Brasilia, Brazil. He is currently a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Metro State University in St. Paul, Mn. He is also a Research Fellow at Pepperdine University’s Center for Faith and the Common Good and a Non-Resident Scholar with Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion.