Azeetat Johnson (deceased, 2022)
PhD, University of Sheffield, 2017
Black feminism, Critical Race Studies, Experiences of Muslims, and Islamophobia
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Dr. Johnson joined the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London upon the completion of her doctorate. She received an Economic and Social Research Council-LISS DTP Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2018 and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship in 2019 to complete her training. The research for the Leverhulme Fellowship focused on home-making for Black women in contemporary Britain. Her work challenged the deep-rooted and enduring white structures of power in academia, including through her landmark co-edited book, 'The Fire Now: anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence' (with Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge, Zed Books, 2018) and her paper, ‘Throwing our bodies against the white background of academia’ (Area, 2019). Dr. Johnson Co-Organized conferences, seminar series and, ultimately, an essay collection (‘The Fire Now’). She was a founding member of Sheffield’s Critical Race and Ethnicity Black Feminist network and the Geography and Embodiment (GEM) Collective. Dr. Johnson passed away on March 7, 2022.