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James Johnson

Associate Professor of History at Boston University

William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center at Kenan-Flagler Business School

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  • Kenan-Flagler Business School
  • Boston University

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Boston University

James Johnson is a cultural historian who writes and teaches about modern and early modern Europe. His interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, the history of Venice, and music history. His book Listening in Paris: A Cultural History appeared in 1995. The first book of a two-volume work on masking, disguise, and identity in European history, Venice Incognito: Masking in the Serene Republic, appeared with the University of California Press in 2011. He is now at work on its successor, Disguised Intentions: Masks in the City of Light.

Professor Johnson has taught an array of courses in his two decades at Boston University, including the Humanities and Social Science sequences in BU’s Core Curriculum, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-European Intellectual History, and Nineteenth-Century France. His seminars have included Music and Ideas, the Culture of World War I, and Postwar European Culture. He has designed and taught summer courses in Venice and Paris.

Professor Johnson was the 1996 recipient of Boston University’s Metcalf Prize for Excellence in Teaching. For six years he was Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Core Curriculum. Between 1999 and 2002 he was BU’s Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, a chair endowed by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Professor Johnson is an active pianist who gives regular lecture/performances on music in its social and cultural context. Recent topics have included “Beethoven and the Art of Infinite Yearning,” “Bach and the Divine Idea,” and “French Impressions. A Musical Journey.”

 

Kenan-Flagler Business School

 

James H. Johnson Jr. is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. 

His research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, urban poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues.

Dr. Johnson and Dr. John D. Kasardacoauthored “The Economic Impact of the African American Population on the State of North Carolina" and a study on the economic impact of North Carolina’s Hispanic population.  With support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Johnson published research on the economic impact of Sept. 11 on U.S. metropolitan communities. Currently he is researching the economic and employment impact of white collar job shifts offshore on U.S. competitiveness. 

Dr. Johnson examines the causes and consequences of growing inequality in American society, particularly as it affects socially and economically disadvantaged youth; entrepreneurial approaches to poverty alleviation, job creation, and community development; inter-ethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies; and business demography and workforce diversity issues. 

Fast Company profiled him in "Hopes and Dreams." 

He has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and three research monographs and has co-edited four theme issues of scholarly journals on these and related topics. His latest book is "Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angles."  

He received his PhD from Michigan State University, his MS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his BS from North Carolina Central University.

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  • demographics
  • diversity
  • entrepreneurship
  • off shoring
  • outsourcing
  • economic development

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