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Jessica Marie Johnson is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Maryland-College Park. She earned her B.A. in African & African American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004 where she was a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
Her fields of study are American and African diaspora history. Her areas of concentration are African-American history, Afro-Caribbean history, Afro-Latina/o history, women and gender in the African diaspora, and slavery in the United States, West Africa and the Caribbean.
Alongside Dr. Elsa Barkley Brown, Dennis Doster, and Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, she is co-convener of the African American Political Culture Workshops at University of Maryland-College Park. She is also a founding member of the African Diaspora Reading Group, and a member of the Latina/o Studies Working Group.
Her dissertation, “Black Atlantic Women: Entrepreneurship, Kinship, Religion and the Struggle for Freedom in Senegal, Gulf Coast Louisiana and Saint-Domingue, 1715-1848″ looks at free women of color and their role in creating and shaping the francophone Atlantic African diaspora.
Jessica Marie Johnson may be contacted at jmjohnso@umd.edu
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