Managing Director of the Price Lab, Stewart Varner, welcomes Jessica Marie Johnson (Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University) to talk about her work as a Historian and Black Studies scholar. In this episode, Johnson discusses her commitment to black feminist thought, the need for scholars to stay aware of how the general public discusses histories of slavery and ideas about enslaved people on social media, and the ways in which Black Studies has long been interested in harnessing data for social justice.
Johnson is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020). She is guest editor of Slavery in the Machine, a special issue of sx:archipelagos (2019), and co-editor with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University) of Black Code: A Special Issue of the Black Scholar (2017).
For more information: jmjohnso.squarespace.com/
Unless otherwise noted, the music used in this episode was sourced from royalty-free music libraries. The artist featured is Blue Dot Sessions.
Intro Music: "Prisoner of Mars" by Stereo Lab