Archiving Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice in the Gulf South (Spring 2026)

Amanda Johnson is a historian who earned her Ph.D. in Native American and Women and Gender Histories from Oklahoma State University in 2022. Dr. Johnson has published work about Indigenous women’s activism in the journals of Ethnohistory and Women and Social Movements and her forthcoming article in the European Journal of American Studies examines the impact of Indigenous women in 1960s American print culture. She is currently developing a book manuscript that analyzes the ways in which Indigenous women advanced the legacy of sovereignty and human rights through the Red Power and feminist movements of the 20th century. Most recently, Dr. Johnson curated the Sawyer Seminar history exhibit, Reproductive Health, Justice, and Activism in the Gulf South which opened to the public at the Newcomb Institute in April 2026.