Jessica Marie Johnson Explained

Jessica Marie Johnson
Other Names:Kismet Nuñez
Alma Mater:University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral Advisor:Ira Berlin
Workplaces:Johns Hopkins University
Discipline:History, Black studies
Sub Discipline:Atlantic slave trade, Black feminism

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. 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. She is a Black studies scholar 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.

Selected works

Books

Journal articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jessica Marie Johnson . September 18, 2022 . . July 20, 2016 . en-US.
  2. Johnson . Jessica Marie . Freedom, kinship, and property: free women of African descent in the French Atlantic, 1685-1810 . 2012 . Ph.D. . . 1129385332 .
  3. Web site: 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 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211202040426/https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-johns-hopkins-slavery-conference-20211201-4xmba5sxqvhzrdhxhy3hwfxaie-story.html . December 2, 2021 . September 18, 2022 . Baltimore Sun.
  4. Web site: Melissa . Dinsman . July 23, 2016 . The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Jessica Marie Johnson . September 18, 2022 . . en.
  5. Web site: Hobson . Janell . June 16, 2021 . Black Feminist In Public: Jessica Marie Johnson on the Importance of Slavery Studies and Knowing Black Sexual Histories . September 18, 2022 . Ms. Magazine.
  6. Web site: December 8, 2021 . Jessica Marie Johnson's Book is a Prizewinner! . September 18, 2022 . . en.
  7. Reviews of Wicked Flesh:
    • Web site: Wilson . Tiana . September 30, 2020 . Review . September 18, 2022 . Not Even Past . en-US.
    • Field . Kate . Spring 2021 . Review . Ethnic and Third World Literatures . 21.
    • Web site: Gemmell . Jamie . March 7, 2021 . Review . September 18, 2022 . Retrospect Journal . en.
    • Eddins . Crystal Nicole . April 26, 2021 . Review . Age of Revolutions.
    • Draper . Mary S. . April 1, 2021 . Review . . 56 . 1 . 85–87 . 10.3138/cjh.56.1-br07 . 238054835 . 0008-4107. free .
    • Semley . Lorelle . Lorelle D. Semley . December 9, 2021 . Review . . 10.1093/jsh/shab071 . 0022-4529.
    • Shire . Laurel Clark . May 2022 . Review . . en . 55 . 113 . 206–208 . 10.1353/his.2022.0020 . 249877437 . 1918-6576.
    • Blanton . John N. . May 2022 . Review . . en . 88 . 2 . 372–373 . 10.1353/soh.2022.0065 . 248822085 . 2325-6893.

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