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Andrew Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Department at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He recently published If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro with Oxford University Press and co-directed a documentary film based on his research of Pentecostalism inside of prison in Brazil. He is currently pursuing a project on religious practice inside of prison in the United States.

After receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota he spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion and three years as a Research Associate at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.

Before entering the doctoral program at Minnesota, he served as a foreign service officer in the United States Agency for International Development and worked at the U.S. Embassies in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Brasilia, Brazil.