Marcus Walton
Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Education
- B.A. Washington University in St. Louis (2010)
M.A., Ph.D., Brown University (2019) - Office
- Office: PLS 304
- mbwalton@bu.edu
- Phone
- (617) 353-3694
Marcus Walton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Brown University. He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the Public Affairs Research Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand.
His research is on democracy and protest in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically looking at how legacies of colonial and post-colonial rule define contentious politics in the 21st century.