Dr. Amy Johnson
Trustee
Dr. Amy M. Johnson (she/her), is Assistant Vice President for Academic Success and Affiliated Faculty in African American and African Studies at Old Dominion University. Prior to that she was Assistant Provost for Experiential Education and Undergraduate Affairs at Vanderbilt University, as well as a professor of the practice in the College of Arts & Sciences and faculty head of Warren College, where she lived with her husband, Vincent, and three children—Elijah and Eden, who attended USN, and Isaac William, who attended Linden.
Johnson is an alumna of Tufts University, where she earned a BA in Spanish and African Diasporic Studies. She earned her master’s and doctorate at Duke University with a focus on pre-colonial West African History, early colonial Caribbean History and comparative slave studies.
Prior to joining the provost office at Vanderbilt, Johnson served as the Executive Director of Core Curriculum and an associate professor of history at Elon University. Johnson regularly taught classes on Poverty and Social Justice, Caribbean History, and Slavery and Resistance.
Johnson is a North Carolina native who enjoys reading and traveling. She previously served on the Board of Directors at the Emerson Waldorf School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she worked on marketing, recruitment, and retention.
