Cherod Booker Johnson

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

African American and African Diaspora Studies | 2025

Dissertation Title: “Dirt, Dust, and the Dark Matter of Slavery’s Environmental Afterlife” 

Committee Members: Dr. Darieck Scott (Chair), Dr. Ula Taylor, Dr. Nadia Ellis 

Examination Fields: Black Ecological Thought, Black Feminisms, Black Queer Theory, The Long 19th Century, and 20th and 21st Century African American and African Diaspora Literatures and Poetry