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American historian
Jessica Marie Johnson is an American historian and
Black studies scholar specializing in the history of the
Atlantic slave trade . She is an associate professor in the department of history at the Johns Hopkins University
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences .
[1] In 2020, Johnson published a
Black feminist history of the founding of
New Orleans titled Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.
Life
Johnson completed a Ph.D. at the
University of Maryland, College Park .
[1] Her 2012 dissertation was titled Freedom, kinship, and property: free women of African descent in the French Atlantic, 1685–1810 .
[2] Her doctoral advisor was
Ira Berlin .
[2] She is a
Black studies scholar
[1] and a historian of the
Atlantic slave trade .
[3]
Johnson began radical black feminist blogging under the pseudonym Kismet Nuñez.
[4] In 2020, Johnson authored a
Black feminist history of the founding of
New Orleans , titled Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World .
[5] It received an honorable mention for the
Frederick Jackson Turner Award .
[6]
Johnson is an associate professor in the department of history at the Johns Hopkins University
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences .
[1]
Selected works
Books
Journal articles
References
^
a
b
c
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"Jessica Marie Johnson" .
Johns Hopkins University . July 20, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
^
a
b Johnson, Jessica Marie (2012).
Freedom, kinship, and property: free women of African descent in the French Atlantic, 1685-1810 (Ph.D. thesis).
University of Maryland, College Park .
OCLC
1129385332 .
^ Pitts, Jonathan M. (December 1, 2021).
"A year after Johns Hopkins announced that founder enslaved people, university to host conference on slavery's legacy on campus and beyond" .
Baltimore Sun . Archived from
the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
^ Melissa, Dinsman (July 23, 2016).
"The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Jessica Marie Johnson" .
Los Angeles Review of Books . Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
^ Hobson, Janell (June 16, 2021).
"Black Feminist In Public: Jessica Marie Johnson on the Importance of Slavery Studies and Knowing Black Sexual Histories" .
Ms. Magazine . Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
^
"Jessica Marie Johnson's Book is a Prizewinner!" .
University of Maryland, College Park . December 8, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
^ Reviews of Wicked Flesh :
Wilson, Tiana (September 30, 2020).
"Review" . Not Even Past . Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
Field, Kate (Spring 2021).
"Review" . Ethnic and Third World Literatures . 21 .
Gemmell, Jamie (March 7, 2021).
"Review" . Retrospect Journal . Retrieved September 18, 2022 .
Eddins, Crystal Nicole (April 26, 2021).
"Review" . Age of Revolutions .
Draper, Mary S. (April 1, 2021).
"Review" .
Canadian Journal of History . 56 (1): 85–87.
doi :
10.3138/cjh.56.1-br07 .
ISSN
0008-4107 .
S2CID
238054835 .
Semley, Lorelle (December 9, 2021). "Review".
Journal of Social History .
doi :
10.1093/jsh/shab071 .
ISSN
0022-4529 .
Shire, Laurel Clark (May 2022). "Review".
Social History . 55 (113): 206–208.
doi :
10.1353/his.2022.0020 .
ISSN
1918-6576 .
S2CID
249877437 .
Blanton, John N. (May 2022). "Review".
Journal of Southern History . 88 (2): 372–373.
doi :
10.1353/soh.2022.0065 .
ISSN
2325-6893 .
S2CID
248822085 .
External links
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