The American Studies Major at Ramapo College

Karl Johnson Assistant Professor of History

Office:		G 222
Campus Phone:		(201) 684-7798
Email:		kjohnson@ramapo.edu
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Educational Background: BA in Economics and History, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ; MA in History, Rutgers University Graduate School-Newark, NJ; Ph.D. in History, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Arrived at Ramapo College: 2002

Areas of Specialization: African American History & Film; History of U.S. Relations Towards Africa and Caribbean; Medieval African Civilizations; U.S. Urban History.

Courses Regularly Taught: African American History; African Americans in Film; Age of Segregation; Black Power Years; Intro to U.S. History; Social Issues; U.S. Relations Toward Africa and its Diaspora

Scholarship: "Police-Black Community Relations in Postwar Philadelphia: Race and Criminalization in Urban Social Spaces, 1945-1960," The Journal of African American History (Spring 2004); "Black Philadelphia in Transition: The African-American Struggle on the Homefront During World War II and the Cold War, 1941-1963" Dissertation, Temple University, 2000; "Herbert Hoover's Change of Policy toward Haiti, 1929-1930: His Commission and its Impact on Ending the U.S. Military Occupation of Haiti, 1929-1930" MA Thesis, Rutgers University, NJ, 1996; "The Last Word: America Should Play Waiting Game in Haiti," Emerge 6 (October 1994): 72.

Points of Interest: I am a member of the prestigious "Association for the Study of African-American Life" founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1915; and a member of the National Association of African American Studies. I also am a referee for the peer reviewed journal "Pennsylvania History," edited by Brian C. Black from the Department of History at Penn State University. I eventually want to become an editor of a major, peer reviewed journal.