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As a historian and Black Studies scholar, Johnson researches black diasporic freedom struggles from slavery to emancipation. As a digital humanist, Johnson explores ways digital and social media disseminate and create historical narratives, in particular, comparative histories of slavery and people of African descent. As a black feminist media maker, Johnson’s praxis is “accountable to the Kitchen Table.” Find samples of her public scholarship (podcast, recorded panels, videos, blog posts, and other public writing) below. See the updates tab for the latest news and media.
#WickedFlesh Conversations
Part One: Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) talks to Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University) about Jennifer Morgan's book "Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic" (Duke UP). Karin Wulf, Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute, moderates the event.
Part Two: Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University) talks to Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) about Jessica Marie Johnson's book "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World" (U Penn Press). Joan Morgan, Program Director for the NYU Institute of African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture, moderates the event.
Wicked Flesh at the From Slavery to Freedom Lab, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, https://fhi.duke.edu/videos/jessica-marie-johnson-wicked-flesh-black-women-intimacy-and-freedom-atlantic-world
French Press 5: Johnson and Wicked Flesh in the H-France Salon in conversation with Dr. Lorelle Semley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ma5-O4nlE
"Body and Soul: A Conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson about Slavery, Gender and the Atlantic World," Program in African American History, Library Company of Philadelphia, February 2021. Featuring Drs. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Sasha Turner, and Sharon Block. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZWYb-oWsR8
Johnson and Wicked Flesh on the #SlaveryArchive Book Club
Johnson & Friends on Slavery, History, Black Life and Timeless Resistance
Discussion of "Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines, edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mai’a Williams, and China Martens" featuring Victoria Law (freelance author, editor, and organizer),
Kellee Coleman (organizer with Vibrant Woman/Mama Sana prenatal clinic), Tanay Lynn Harris (co-founder of the Bloom Collective Baltimore),
Cecilia Caballero (PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California),
China Martens (organizer, editor, and author), Mai’a Williams (journalist, organizer, editor, and author), and moderated by Jessica Marie Johnson (Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University).
Roundtable on the Anniversary of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, New Books in African American Studies Podcast, (September 2020) https://newbooksnetwork.com/roundtable-discussion-of-jennifer-morgans-laboring-women-laboring-women-reproduction-and-gender-in-new-world-slavery-upenn-press-2004
Join Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), with Cécile Fromont (Yale University), for a discussion of "Reading, Writing, and Teaching Black Life and Anti-Black Violence in the Early Modern World."
"Black Subjectivity, State Violence, and the Historical Archive," Association of Black Women Historians ABWH-TV panel with Drs. Treva Lindsey, Vanessa Holden, and Derrais Carter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPgpwFySGUw
Institute for the Black World 50th Anniversary Celebration: SESSION #3: Tuesday, July 20: Remaking the Past to Make the Future: The New Black History: This program explores the evolution of Black History from the late 1960s to the present and its relevance to the future of Black America. Featuring Howard Dodson (moderator) with panelists James West, Jessica Marie Johnson, John Bracey, Pero Dagbovie, Rachel Harding and Robert "Bobby" Hill. View here: https://www.facebook.com/104889244987893/videos/1204274840033473
Johnson on Black DH and the Digtial H
"History of Atlantic Slavery and the Digital Humanities," *The Interview Podcast,* American Historical Association (February 2021), http://ahrinterview.libsyn.com/jessica-marie-johnson-on-the-history-of-atlantic-slavery-and-the-digital-humanities
"Silence as Structure: Ancestral Histories in Digital Space," Black as X: Platforming Digital Scholarship, African American Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Maryland (February 2021) https://www.notion.so/Black-as-X-57bc6982188f4821b2c0779c19f9d796
Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black “This Code Cracks: A #BlackCodeStudies Roundatble
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Jessica Marie Johnson on location at Lehigh University to talk about the violence against black bodies in the media.
