Jessica Marie Johnson

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a historian of Atlantic slavery and the African diaspora. She is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (2020), a multi-prizewinning book that has been recognized across the fields of history, Black studies, and gender studies. An internationally recognized digital humanist, Johnson directs LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and co-leads initiatives including Black Beyond Data and the Diaspora Solidarities Lab. Her widely cited essay “Markup Bodies” is a foundational intervention in Black studies, digital humanities, and data science. Johnson has edited several special issues, co-edited Debates in the Digital Humanities: Computational Humanities, and published in leading journals and public forums. She is currently at work on two books with Liveright/W. W. Norton: one on Black women’s engagement with histories of slavery in digital and social media, and another on Black researchers and the first generation freed from slavery in the United States.

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