Jessica Marie Johnson is an American historian and

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scholar specializing in the history of the

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. 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

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history of the founding of

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titled ''Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.''

Life

Johnson completed a Ph.D. at the

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. Her 2012 dissertation was titled ''Freedom, kinship, and property: free women of African descent in the French Atlantic, 1685–1810''. Her doctoral advisor was Ira Berlin. She is a

scholar and a historian of the

. Johnson began radical black feminist

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under the pseudonym Kismet Nuñez. In 2020, Johnson authored a

history of the founding of

, titled ''Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World''. It received an honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. 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

* Reviews of ''Wicked Flesh'': * * * * * * * *

Journal articles

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References

External links

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