Charles D Johnson

Dr. Charles Denton Johnson is an associate professor of history and chair of the Department of History at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). As a proud alumnus of NCCU’s History graduate program, he returned to the university in 2015 to serve as the director of public history.

Dr. Johnson is an award-winning teacher and a co-author of two books: (1) "Topics on African Diaspora History" (2016) and (2) "NC A&T vs. NCCU: More Than Just a Game" (2023), a recent publication that chronicles the 100-year history of the Aggie vs. Eagle football rivalry in photos and newspaper articles. He holds degrees from Morehouse College (B.A.).; North Carolina Central (M.A.); and Howard University (Ph.D.). Dr. Johnson is a scholar of African diaspora, African American, and public history. Specifically, he is fascinated with 20th-century African-Diaspora social movements and how informal transnational and local/community relations shape history.

An avid oral historian for over twenty years, he uses oral history as an archive to preserve and tell histories of Black experiences that might otherwise go unpreserved and untold. Dr. Johnson has won numerous awards and is listed in Who’s Who in America.