Core Faculty

Rhoda E. Johnson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies

Rhoda Johnson has been on the Women's Studies faculty since 1986. During that time, she served as Department Chair from 1986 until 1991, and she supervised the implementation of the Master's degree program. She is a specialist in African-American Studies and Social Inequality. Currently engaged in important research on Preventive Medicine for Minority Women, she is a principal investigator on NIH-funded breast cancer research. She teaches courses on Culture of Southern Black Women, Sex Roles, and Civil Rights, and she is author of Women's Studies in the South (Kendall/Hunt). Johnson is active in community projects such as Black Women's Leadership and Economic Development Project, Tombigbee Girl Scouts, and she has chaired the National Register Review Board, Alabama Historical Commission.
rhodaj@bama.ua.edu | Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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