WICKED FLESH by Jessica Marie Johnson and VANGUARD by Martha Jones are chosen by editors of Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society) as one of the best Black history […]

Congratulations to Professor Francois Furstenberg on receiving a Discovery Award! In 2020, 41 Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across eleven units of Johns Hopkins. From utilizing machine learning […]

Since coming to Hopkins in 2016, Jessica Marie Johnson’s innovations in digital humanities have girded her understanding of how African American women have lived and envisioned what freedom might look like. Her work in progress, including Life x Code: Digital Humanities […]

Congratulation to Associate Professor Erin Rowe on winning the Roland H. Bainton Prize by Sixteenth Century Studies (2020) and the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History […]

In an interview with The Way of Improvement Leads Home, Assistant Professor Jessica Johnson discusses her recent publication, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.

Pier Larson, professor in the Department of History, died on Saturday, July 25, 2020. He was 58. Pier was a historian of Africa with a specialty in Madagascar and the […]

A July 2020 article from Vox discusses the shortcomings of media representation of Black icons in regards to the recent Vanity Fair and Vogue magazine covers, featuring the unclothed/exposed backs […]