Damarius Johnson is a public historian located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Book release event
November 12, 2024
Picturing Black History:
Photographs And Stories That Changed The World
From the Introduction to Picturing Black History:
“In developing a history of the African American experience in its variety, community members and scholars alike embrace photography as a visual record of the enduring connections that sustain Black folk.
Black history has been much more than simply a catalog of stories, figures, and events in the struggle against racial discrimination. It has offered a toolkit of strategies for confronting the persistent difficulties of everyday life in a context for imagining new possibilities for African Americans in American society.”
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Press and Media Coverage
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Damarius Johnson is a PhD student in the Department of History at The Ohio State University.
His dissertation research examines the legacies of 20th-century Pan-African movements on the theory and practice of Black museology in the United States and West Africa. His research traces the Afro-Atlantic circulation of ideas, artifacts, and museum staff that shaped Black museums into venues for self-determination and institution-building, intergenerational teaching and learning, cultural performance and collective empowerment.
EDUCATION
M.A., The Ohio State University, History
B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Africana Studies
A.A., Community College of Baltimore County
Howard University, Department of Afro-American Studies
CONTENT Expertise
African American history
African history
Museum and Heritage history
select digital
Publications
Picturing Black History
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education
Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
Community Outreach Manager,
BookmarksNC
At Bookmarks, a bookstore and literary non-profit in Winston-Salem, Damarius manages Book with Purpose, an annual community read and civic engagement initiative that includes book donations and community programming focused on a single theme.
In 2024, Book with Purpose focused on the history of voter suppression in the United States with Dr. Carol Anderson’s One Person, No Vote. Nearly 5,000 copies of the book were distributed to communities across the Triad. Dr. Anderson delivered the festival keynote at Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors, the largest literary festival in the Carolinas.
Photo Credit: MJS Live Productions
