Faculty Head of Warren College

Professor of the Practice in the College of Arts & Sciences

(she/her/hers)

Email: amy.m.johnson@vanderbilt.edu

Education

• PhD – Duke University

Specializations

• Slavery
• Maroons
• Jamaica
• Colonization
• Bondage

Biography

Johnson is an alumna of Tufts University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and African Diasporic Studies.  She earned her master’s and doctorate at Duke University with a focus on pre-colonial West African History, early colonial Caribbean History and comparative slave studies. Johnson teaches classes on Poverty and Social Justice, Caribbean History, and Slavery and Resistance.

Portfolio

• 2022, ““Master uses us goodee yet, but when he uses us ugly we’ll come”: Colonialism and Collective Slave Resistance, A Framework for Consideration,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Forthcoming.
• 2020, “The Slaveholders of Charles Town and Moore Town: 1810-1820.” New West Indian Guide, vol. 94, no.3-4 (Nov. 2020): 273-292.
• 2019, with Dr. Crystal Eddins, “Repression, Revolt, & Racial Politics: Maroons in Early Eighteenth Century Saint Domingue and Jamaica” The Haitian History Journal: Haiti and the Atlantic World. 
• 2015, “Gradations of Freedom: The Maroons of Jamaica, 1798-1821.” Journal of Caribbean History, vol. 49, no. 2 (2015): 160-188.