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Jordan Johnson

Collegiate Fellow, Surveillance
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Biography

Jordan Johnson holds a PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University with a concentration in Environmental Health from the Rollins School of Public Health. Most recently, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University. Her research focuses on feminist and queer approaches to issues of ecology and environmental health, analyzing how specific resource management and restoration projects on post-industrial sites in the US South reframe questions of subjectivity, agency, and ethical responsibility. Her work on feminist environmental ethics and postindustrial wilderness sites has been published in The Journal of Posthumanism. Her current monograph takes up the biopolitics of invasive species management, tracking how settler colonial and heteropatriarchal notions of difference, threat, and reproduction shape responses to the aquatic fern Salvinia molesta as this species proliferates in southern waterways as well as swamps worldwide.

Education

  • Ph.D., Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University