Jajuan Johnson, PhD on Clubhouse

Bio

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▫️Scholar of Black life, history, and culture

▪️Mellon Foundation Fellow - William & Mary

▫️Founder of Speaking History, LLC

▪️Founder of Arkansas Black Gay Men’s Forum

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Pastimes:
🧘🏿‍♂️Yoga
📚 Reading
✍🏾 Writing
🎥 Documentaries
🥞🥓🍳🍾 Brunching

“Liberate the minds and then I go home” -Badu

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Jajuan’s Bio:

Jajuan Johnson is a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral research associate and visiting professor at William & Mary. He earned a Ph.D. in Heritage Studies from Arkansas State University. His dissertation, “They Didn’t Burn Down Our Spirit: Heritage Terrorism and the Resurgence of Black Church Burnings in the Age of Obama,” investigates recent Black church arson cases. His study explores the impact of burnings on the tangible and intangible heritage of Black communities. His current research focuses on Black gay/SGL men and the politics of place-making.

Jajuan started his career in pubic history as an AmeriCorps volunteer at the Delta Studies Center at Arkansas State University. He traveled the Lower Mississippi Delta region conducting interviews on labor, race, and politics. While serving as the Director of Research and Public Programming at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, an African American history museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, he developed educational programs focused on preserving local history.

During his tenure with the Central Arkansas Library System, he developed the oral history program as the principal researcher. He produced hundreds of interviews archived at Philander Smith College, Arkansas State University and on the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ online repository. As the assistant director of the Starr Center at Washington College, he helped to develop a community curation initiative called Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project. Jajuan is published in the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Ethnohistory, Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, and has contributed to numerous film documentaries as a humanities scholar.

He is a member of the Oral History Association, American Anthropological Association, the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Afro-American Genealogy and Historical Society, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.