Jessica Marie Johnson
Jessica Marie Johnson | |
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Other names | Kismet Nuñez |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Maryland, College Park |
Doctoral advisor | Ira Berlin |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History, Black studies |
Sub-discipline | Atlantic slave trade, Black feminism |
Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Website | jessicamariejohnson |
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.
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
- Johnson, Jessica Marie (2020). Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. ISBN 978-0-8122-5238-5.[7]
Journal articles
- Lindsey, Treva B.; Johnson, Jessica Marie (September 2014). "Searching for Climax". Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 12 (2): 169–195. S2CID 144571028.
- Johnson, Jessica Marie (December 2018). "Markup Bodies". S2CID 149991494.
References
- ^ a b c d "Jessica Marie Johnson". Johns Hopkins University. July 20, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- ^ OCLC 1129385332.
- Baltimore Sun. Archived from the originalon 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". S2CID 238054835.
- ISSN 0022-4529.
- Shire, Laurel Clark (May 2022). "Review". S2CID 249877437.
- Blanton, John N. (May 2022). "Review". S2CID 248822085.