Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Political Science
Northwestern University
2002
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Faculty
Faculty
Krista Johnson
Director, Center for African Studies
Department/Office
- Center for African Studies
School/College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Biography
Krista Johnson is Professor and Director of the Center for African Studies at Howard University. She is also co-convenor of the HU Women and Gender Studies Collective. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and has published on a wide range of topics including health policy, gender and HIV prevention, global health governance in Africa, and race and racism in international relations. Johnson specializes in African politics witha particular focus on social movements and health policy in sub-Saharan Africa
She has lived and traveled extensively throughout southern Africa, completed a Fulbright Fellowship in 2012 at the Centre for the Study of HIV and AIDS at the University of Botswana, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape. In 2019 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to conduct research for her upcoming book on The “Howard School” and early African-American scholars in the field of International Relations. She completed a fellowship with the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2021. She was also awarded a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship for 2021 in partnership with the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg.
Education & Expertise
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
International Relations
Johns Hopkins University
1990
Diploma
African Studies
University of Cape Town
1989
Academics
Academics
Introduction to Contemporary Africa
AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora
Southern Africa
Seminar in Regional Studies
Freshman Seminar
Senior Colloquium
Issues in Public Health and Development in Africa (graduate seminar)
Scope and Methods (graduate research methods course)
Gender Theory in African Societies (graduate seminar)
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow - 2021
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for education projects at African higher education institutions. The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship will support Dr. Johnson's partnership with colleagues at the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg. https://www.iie.org/programs/carnegie-african-diaspora-fellowship-progr…
UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities, Inclusion Imperative Fellowship - Spring 2021
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Faculty Fellowship 2019
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
What black scholars can teach the post-Covid world
Wilson’s Imperial Internationalism
Race, Indigeneity, and the Global South in IHAP
Race, Indigeneity, and the Global South in IHAP:
Missed Opportunities and Possible Future
The theme of this newsletter is “Race, Indigeneity, and the Global
South in IHAP.” In the first contribution, Krista Johnson and Owen
Brown provide an overview of one of our panels this fall “The Howard
School of International Relations: Theory and Practice.” All of the contributions to this newsletter are
designed to push scholars working in international history to reflect on
the ways in which their own work might be founded on raced and racist
concepts.
Encyclopedia of South Africa
This authoritative, comprehensive reference work covers South Africa's history, government and politics, law, society and culture, economy and infrastructure, demography, environment, and more, from the era of human origins to the present. Nearly 300 alphabetically arranged entries provide information in a concise yet thorough way. In addition, a series of appendixes present a wealth of data, including: a chronology of key events, major racial and apartheid legislation since 1856, heads of state (with party affiliation) since 1910, provinces and major cities, government structures, and current political parties and representation in parliament. Photographs enhance the text.
It Matters How We Define the African Diaspora
It Matters How We Define the African Diaspora
The explicit incorporation of the African diaspora into U.S.-Africa policy risks segmenting the community into old and new, with important domestic and international consequences.
Recent Articles
Multimedia
Newzroom Afrika | Dr. Krista Johnson on the US elections
Centre for African Studies director Dr Krista Johnson at Howard University weighs in on the US elections and the likely results, given population changes and what this means for both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Voice of America | HBCUs Don’t Exclusively Serve Students of African Descent
While historically Black colleges and universities in the United States “mainly” serve students of African descent, they don’t excessively do so, according to Krista Johnson, a professor and director of Howard University’s Center for African Studies. VOA’s Haydé Adams spoke to Johnson following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action diversity programs.