Posted inArticles Issue 15 2026
About Genevieve Johnson
Genevieve Johnson is a historian whose work broadly deals with racial and transatlantic afterlives of British and American colonialism. Her PhD thesis was on Moses Roper’s life and work and his impact upon the development of Black abolitionist activism and print culture in Wales. She is currently precariously employed as an Associate Lecturer and Research Associate at Newcastle University. Her article on Black American activism in Wales was published in Slavery & Abolition, and she contributed a chapter to the edited collection Sacred Bundles Unborn, which is about the forced and coerced sterilisation of Indigenous Canadian women. She has worked extensively in public history, as a researcher and writer on history podcasts, including BBC’s You’re Dead To Me.