Azeetat Johnson (deceased, 2022)

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.