Assistant Professor, History and African American Studies Tracey Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Institute for African American Studies. She specializes in social movements, the history of education, urban and political history, and the history of Black art and artists. She received her doctorate in African American and African Diasporic History from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Professor Johnson has taught classes on Modern African American History, African American Women's History, African American Art History and Museum Studies, and Art and Activism in the United States.