Adeerya Johnson is a PhD Student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.Adeerya is Hip-Hop Womanist from Atlanta, Ga. She received her Bachelors in Psychology from Spelman College as a Coca-Cola Scholar. Adeerya pursued a Masters in the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University where she became a member of Ankh Ma’at Wedjau Honor Society.

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 and to the field of hip-hop studies are facilitating public lectures on southern hip-hop, digital archiving, women in hip-hop and contemporary hip-hop feminisms.

Johnson, A. (2022). Hella Bars: The Cultural Inclusion of Black Women’s Rap in Insecure. Open Cultural Studies, 6(1), 76-87. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0144

Johnson, A. (2021). Dirty South Feminism: The Girlies Got Somethin’ to Say Too! Southern Hip-Hop Women, Fighting Respectability, Talking Mess, and Twerking Up the Dirty South. Religions, 12(11), 1030.

Johnson, A. J. (2020, February). Hip-Hop Perspectives. Gumbo Magazine, 1(1).

Michelle Lynn Rosa Memorial Prize (2020)
President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award (2020-2021)
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2019-2020)
International Tuition Award (2019-2020)
R. Howard Webster Fellowship, Green College (2019)
Ankh Ma’at Wedjau Honor Society, National Council of Black Studies (2019)
Golden Key International Honour Society, Georgia State University (2018)
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Af. Ame Studies, Georgia State University (2017)
Beta Kappa Chi Honors Society, Spelman College (2015)

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 and fans of the genre and the public access to 1,300 hip-hop artifacts through an online portal.