Nadia E. Brown, Ph.D. is a professor of government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and an affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University. She specializes in Black women’s politics and holds a graduate certificate in women's and gender studies. Brown's research interests lie broadly in identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies. While trained as a political scientist, her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity.

Brown is the author—and editor—of several award-winning books, including Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making,  Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (with Danielle Lemi);  Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics (with Sarah Allen Gershon), The Politics of Protest: Readings on the Black Lives Matter Movement (with Ray Block, Jr. and Christopher Stout), Approaching Democracy: American Government in Times of Challenge (with Larry Berman, Bruce Allen Murphy, and Sarah Allen Gershon). She is the lead editor of Politics, Groups and Identities.

Brown earned her doctorate from Rutgers University and is the recipient of a million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "#MeTooPoliSci Leveraging a Professional Association to Address Sexual Harassment in Political Science." She is also an editor with “The Monkey Cage”, a political science blog in the Washington Post.