Tai Johnson
Assistant Professor of History

Tai Elizabeth Johnson is an Assistant Professor of History with research and teaching interests in environmental history, United States history, Indigenous history, public history, and digital history. She holds a Ph.D. in History and M.S. in Geographic Information Systems Technology from the University of Arizona. Her first book, Shifting Nature: Food, Agriculture, and Environment on the Hopi Indian Reservation, is under contract with University of Nebraska Press as part of the New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series, co-published by the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Johnson has held fellowships at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. Her work is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and appears most recently in the journal Agricultural History.