Jessica Marie Johnson
Jessica Marie Johnson | |
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Johnson in 2021 | |
| 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. 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.