Richard J. Meagher Jr.

Richard J. Meagher Jr. holds a master’s of arts degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in political science from City University of New York. He is a political science professor at Randolph-Macon College as well as a local political analyst for WRIC 8 News in Richmond, Virginia. His commentary and opinion have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, and his own RVAPolitics site (rvapol.com). He is a faculty fellow for Brandeis University’s Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT), a national program engaging undergraduates in state-level legislative change. Meagher has also published two books: “Local Politics Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Making a Difference” and “Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries.”