ADEERYA JOHNSON

Adeerya Johnson is a digital collections archivist of the early hip-hop collection at the Museum of Pop Culture. As an Atlanta native, she received her bachelor’s in Psychology from Spelman College and a masters in African American Studies at Georgia State University. Currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at The University of British Columbia, Adeerya is studying Black women’s connections to southern hip-hop dance cultures through a contemporary hip-hop feminist lens.

Currently, Adeerya is working on a two-year project at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington. At MoPOP, she amplifies historical scholarship within the field of hip-hop studies through digital archiving by giving researchers, scholars, fans of the genre and the public access to 1300 hip-hop artifacts through an online portal. As a hip-hop scholar and academic, her interests include hip-hop feminism, southern hip-hop studies, and Black popular culture. Her desire and career goals in hip-hop studies is to conduct research that aims to offer contemporary perspectives on Black women's identity, dance cultures and history in the American South through what she calls, Dirty South Feminism. Her scholarly contributions to the field of hip-hop studies include facilitating public lectures on southern hip-hop and digital archiving women in hip-hop and contemporary hip-hop feminisms.