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 The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences is an academic division of the Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. The school is located on the university's Homewood campus. It is the core of Johns Hopkin ...

. In 2020, Johnson published a

Black feminist Black feminism is a philosophy that centers on the idea that "Black women are inherently valuable, that lack women'sliberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because our need as human persons for autonomy." Race, gen ...

history of the founding of

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,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 The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

. Her 2012 dissertation was titled ''Freedom, kinship, and property: free women of African descent in the French Atlantic, 1685–1810''. Her doctoral advisor was

Ira Berlin Ira Berlin (May 27, 1941 – June 5, 2018) was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as ''Many Thousands Gone: ...

. She is a Black studies scholar and a historian of the Atlantic slave trade. Johnson began radical black feminist blogging under the pseudonym Kismet Nuñez. In 2020, Johnson authored a

history of the founding of

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

, titled ''Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World''. It received an honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. Johnson is an associate professor in the department of history at the Johns Hopkins University

Selected works

Books

* Reviews of ''Wicked Flesh'': * * * * * * * *

Journal articles

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References

External links

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