Jessica Marie Johnson's Book is a Prizewinner!

Alumni Book Continues Prize Juggernaut

Jessica Marie Johnson's (PhD, 2012, Advisor: Ira Berlin) book Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) has been awarded the 2021 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association.

Johnson's book also won the Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize for Outstanding Original Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora (Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora; 2021 Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history (American Historical Association); the Lora Romero First Book Prize (American Studies Association); and the 2020 Kemper Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History (The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association).

The book was a Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History (African American Intellectual History Society). Johnson's book is currently a finalist for the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; and the MacMillan Center at Yale University. The winner will be announced in February 2022.

It also received Honorable Mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award (Organization of American Historians); the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize (French Colonial Historical Society); and the Barbara Christian Literary Prize (Caribbean Studies Association).

Jessica Marie Johnson is Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. 

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