Michael Leo Owens

Michael Leo Owens is Professor of Political Science and the 2023 Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Awardee for the Social Sciences at Emory University. He is the author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and co-author of Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America (Princeton University Press, 2025). A 2012-2014 Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellow of The Op-Ed Project, his opinions and commentaries have appeared in media and popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, National Public Radio, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.