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WICKED FLESH and VANGUARD chosen as two of the best Black history books of 2020 by Black Perspectives

WICKED FLESH and VANGUARD chosen as two of the best Black history books of 2020 by Black Perspectives

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 […]

Furstenberg receives 2020 Discovery Award

Furstenberg receives 2020 Discovery Award

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 […]

Developing a Digital Picture of Race with Jessica Marie Johnson

Developing a Digital Picture of Race with Jessica Marie Johnson

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 […]

Martha S. Jones explores women’s right to vote in Arts & Sciences Magazine

Professor Martha S. Jones was featured in the fall 2020 issue of the Krieger Arts & Sciences Magazine, discussing racism during and since the fight for women’s suffrage in America. […]

Black Saints wins two books prizes

Black Saints wins two books prizes

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 […]

“Wicked Flesh” interview with Jessica M. Johnson

“Wicked Flesh” interview with Jessica M. Johnson

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.

Welcome, Dr. Amarilys Estrella!

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Amarilys Estrella will be joining JHU, this fall, as the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoc for 2020-2021. Her postdoc will be located in the […]

StoryTime with Dr. Connolly

Our very own history instructors, Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott, and their children have become a family filmmaking unit with the creation of Storytime with Dr. Connolly! Every member of […]

In Memoriam: Professor Pier Larson

In Memoriam: Professor Pier Larson

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 […]

Representation is deeper than putting Black icons on magazine covers

Representation is deeper than putting Black icons on magazine covers

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 […]