Jessica Marie Johnson

CTL-E-6373 · Person · scholar · 2020–present

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Combined Graph record U-07559 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6373.

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University and a historian of slavery in the U.S. South and Caribbean. She is an internationally recognized digital humanist: founding director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, principal investigator of Black Beyond Data, and co-director, with Yomaira C. Figueroa, of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab. Her book Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020) won multiple first-book and history prizes, including the 2021 Wesley-Logan Prize and the 2020 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize. With Mark Anthony Neal she co-edited Black Code, the 2017 special issue of The Black Scholar that named Black Code Studies, and she guest-edited Slavery in the Machine (2019).

Notes

TITLE CURRENCY: 2020-era sources list Johnson as Assistant Professor; the live JHU page says Associate Professor, which this record uses. GRADE BASIS: Verified — her own university page plus the journal's announcement plus a Duke republication. PHOTO: HELD with a named re-check lead (see media). CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): Johnson is the hinge of this packet — she connects the slavery archive to the digital present, which is exactly the span CTL's recovery work claims. (Draft judgment, not fact.)

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• Johns Hopkins University — affiliated with
  Johns Hopkins University's Department of History lists Jessica Marie Johnson as an Associate Professor in the department; Johns Hopkins University is live record CTL-E-4103.

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• Black Code Studies — related to → this record

Sources

• “Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Johnson is a historian of slavery in the U.S. South and Caribbean. She is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020)… Johnson is the Founding Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure… co-editor with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University) of Black Code: A Special Issue of the Black Scholar (2017).” Accessed 2026-10-29. (primary source · build store)
• “The Black Scholar is proud to announce the release of ‘Black Code,’ by guest editors Jessica Marie Johnson and Mark Anthony Neal.” Accessed 2026-10-29. (build store)
• “Excerpted from The Black Scholar, Vol. 47, Aug. 2017. By Jessica Marie Johnson and Mark Anthony Neal.” Accessed 2026-10-29. (build store)

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