Assistant Professor North Carolina
Resume:
Tekla Ali Johnson Ph.D., MLIS
ADDRESS: P.O BOX **2 • KINGS MOUNTAIN, NC 28086
EMAIL:*****.*******@******.***.***; *****@*******.**.*** WEBSITE: teklaalijohnson.com
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, History, 2005: Dissertation: An Intellectual and Political Biography of Nebraska State Senator Ernest Chambers: Activist, Statesman, and Humanist.
Master of Library and Information Science: with a Specialty in Archives, University of Southern Mississippi, 2015. Specialty Archives.
Bachelor of Arts: English, emphasis in African American Literature and Creative Writing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1991.
Graduate Internships in Archives, Nebraska State Historical Society, 2002-3; 2009-10. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Archivist & Historian “A Virtual Sense of Place: African Rebuild in Charlotte, NC”
(funded by NPS, National Archives), 2020-2024.
Faculty Fellowship in Archives, Johnson C. Smith University, 2024 Faculty Fellowship in Archives, Johnson C. Smith University, 2022 Summer Abroad Course in Uganda and Kenya, 2022.
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina-Union 2022-Present. Faculty Fellowship in Archives, Johnson C. Smith University, 2021-2022 Librarian, Johnson C. Smith University 2019-2021
Visiting Professor, Harris Stowe State University 2017-2019 Co-Director Southern Preservation Center, 2014-2017 Assistant Professor of History: Salem College,, Winston-Salem, N.C. Public History, Public History Internship Coordinator, 2010 to 2014.
Project Archivist: City of Lincoln, Nebraska “Malone Community Center/Urban League” Project. 2011.
Project Archivist: Great Plains Black History Museum Collection, 2009-2011. Faculty Fellowship, Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for African American Studies, 2009-2010.
Assistant Professor of History: Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2006- 2009.
Project Archivist: Papers of Nebraska State Senator Ernest Chambers, 2001-2003; processed the Papers of State Senator Chambers (300 ft.).
GRANTS & AWARDS
“Critical Black Urbanism: A Virtual Sense of Place” National Archives, 2020.
“A Virtual Sense of Place: African American Urbanism” National Parks Service, 2020. Nebraska Book Award in the category of “Biography,” Nebraska Center for the Book, for Free Radical, (TTUP2012) 2013.
UNCF/Mellon Faculty Residency Award Recipient, ($25,000) at Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Study, 2009. Exemplary Diversity Scholar Citation for 2008-2009, by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity.
Historian and Archivist: Malone Community History Project, Lincoln, NE, 2007-2008, NE Humanities Council.
Human Rights Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska 2001-02. PUBLICATIONS
African American (Urban) Removal: and the Struggle for Survival in Charlotte, North Carolina, Forthcoming with University of South Carolina Press, 2025.
*Tekla Johnson (2017) "African American Archival Resources: Representation in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia," SLIS Connecting: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 7. (Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol6/iss1/7)
“‘Free Radical’: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race, Texas Tech University Press, 2012.
Paper: “African American Women in the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference; Buffalo, New York, 2005. Paper: "Reformer to Revolutionary: Frederick Douglass after Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Kansas-Nebraska Act." Nebraska and the Kansas-Nebraska Act Lecture Series, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Nebraska, November 2004.
MEMBERSHIPS
PRESENT AND PAST
Association for the Study of African American History and Life Western History Association
National Council for Black Studies
American Historical Association
Society of American Archivists
Digital Library Federation
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Oral Histories “Upfront” with Southern Artists (Musicians), Charlotte, North Carolina; airing on Channel 21; 2014-2019.
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