Ronald Angelo Johnson
Assistant Professor
Department of History  Texas State University
601 University Drive  San Marcos, Texas 78666
(512) 245-2142  [email protected]
EDUCATION
Purdue University, Ph.D.
Dissertation: "‘In Close Alliance’: How the Early American
Republic and Revolutionary Saint-Domingue Made Their
Way in a Hostile Atlantic World"
Advisors: Frank Lambert (chair), John L. Larson, James Farr, John Contreni
2010
Boston University, M.Div., magna cum laude
School of Theology
Specializations: Church History, Religion and Diplomacy
Advisors: Christopher Brown, Barbara Diefendorf
2006
Johns Hopkins University, M.A., distinction
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
American Foreign Policy Program
Advisor: Piero Gleijeses
1999
Texas State University, B.A., summa cum laude
International Studies,
1997
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Assistant Professor of History (tenure track)
U.S. Navy Reserve, San Antonio, TX
Chaplain
U.S. Department of State
Foreign Service Officer
Chief of Political Section
U.S. Embassy, Libreville, Gabon
Chief of Consular Section
U.S. Embassy, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Graduate Fellow
U.S. Consulate General, Naples, Italy
Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, VA
Graduate Fellow Political Analyst
Undergraduate Scholar Analyst
U.S. Air Force Reserve
Intelligence Specialist
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX
August 2010-Present
2013-Present
1999-2003
1997-1999
1996-1997
1994-1998
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World
Alliance (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014)
Essay “The Caribbean,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York:
OxfordUniversity Press, 2012), I, 133-34
“A Revolutionary Dinner: U.S. Diplomacy toward Saint-Domingue, 1798-1801,”
Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9 (Winter 2011): 114-41
Book Review, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic, by Ashli
White, in The William and Mary Quarterly 68 (April 2011): 311-14
Book Review, Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of
Second Haitian Revolution, by Matthew J. Clavin, in The Journal of African American
History 96 (Fall 2011): 563-65
“The Peculiar Ventures of Particular Baptist Pastor William Kiffin and King Charles II of England,”
Baptist History & Heritage 44 (2009): 60-71
“‘For Such a Time as This’: John Dury, Jean-Baptiste Stouppe, and Cromwellian Diplomacy,”
Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 15 (2008): 95-101
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute, “African-American
History and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry”
2013
Travel Grant, Program for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Texas State University
2012
Research Enhancement Program Grant, Texas State University
2010-2011
Albert B. Alkek Library Research Grant, Texas State University
2010
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia
2009
Winifred Beatrice Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University
2009-2010
Summer Research Grant, Purdue Research Foundation
2009
Harold D. Woodman Graduate Research Award, Purdue University
2009
Doctoral Grant, American Baptist Churches, U.S.A.
2008-2009
Research and Discovery Support Program Grant, Purdue University
2008
Reverend Edmund M. Beebe Fellowship, Boston University
2008-2009
National Ministries Scholarship, American Baptist Churches, U.S.A.
2005-2006
Seminarian Scholarship, National Baptist Education Society
2005-2006
William S. Studley Scholarship, Boston University
2003-2004
Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, Wilson Foundation
1998-1999
George C. Crowell Memorial Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
1998-1999
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Panel Organizer, “Stride Toward Freedom in the Age of Atlantic Slavery,” for the 2014 annual
meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
“A Tale of Two Professions: Existing Professional Differences in Academic Careers,” Annual
Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR),
St. Louis, MO, July 2013
“From Christiansted to Cap-Français: Edward Stevens and U.S. Diplomacy in Saint-Domingue,”
Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR),
Arlington, VA, June 2013
Chair, “Brazil Media Representations on Screen and in Print,” Annual Meeting of the Southwest
Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), Miami, FL, March 2012
“Relations over Race: U.S. Cross-Cultural Diplomacy during the Haitian Revolution,”
Phi Alpha Theta Brown Bag Lecture Series, Texas State University, October 2011
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“Revolution and Relocation: The Haitian Effect on Atlantic Colonization and Migration,” Annual
Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), San Juan, PR, May 2011
“Allegiance to the Flag(s): Race, Nationality, and Politics in Atlantic Migration, 1793-1825,”
Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), Houston, TX,
March 2011
“Our Minister to Toussaint: Race and U.S. Relations toward Revolutionary Saint-Domingue,”
Annual Meeting of the New England Historical Association (NEHA), Burlington, VT,
October 2009
“A Revolutionary Dinner: U.S. Diplomacy toward Saint-Domingue, 1798-1801,” Annual Meeting
of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), St. Francois, Guadeloupe, May 2009
Chair and Commentator, “Power: International and Local Challenger” panel, History Graduate
Student Association Conference, Purdue University, April 2009
“Diplomacy in Black and White: A Distinctive U.S. Foreign Policy toward Revolutionary SaintDomingue,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic
(SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, July 2008
Panel Organizer, “Revolutionary Relations: The Saint-Dominguan Influence on Early American
Policy,” for the 2008 annual meeting of the Society of Historians of the Early American
Republic (SHEAR)
“’For Such a Time as This’: John Dury, Jean-Baptiste Stouppe, and Cromwellian
Diplomacy,” Annual Meeting of Florida Conference of Historians, Orlando, FL, April 2007
INVITED TALKS
“Diplomacy of the People: Timothy Pickering’s Foreign Policy Plan for Saint-Domingue,” The
Pickering House, Salem, Massachusetts, March 2014
"Crossroads Revisited: The United States and Haiti,” University of California, Davis,
February 2014
“U.S. Diplomacy in the Age of Obama: Exceptionalism vs. Excessive Power,” International
Dialogue Series, Texas State University, November 2013
“Merchant on the Move: Marie Bunel and Atlantic Migration in the Age of Revolutions,”
Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2011
Presentation of Dissertation Research, Fellowship Colloquium, Library Company of Philadelphia
and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, August 2009
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Black Americans Need to Bury the N-Word,” op-ed, Purdue Exponent, 11/2007
“U.S. Policy Decreases Terrorist Threat,” op-ed, Manchester Union-Leader, 02/2005
Letter to the Editor on Hate Crimes, Manchester Union-Leader, 01/2005
“A Call to Action: The Church and U.S. Foreign Policymaking,” Online Journal of Public
Theology, 02/2004
“Gabon,” Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Department of State, 2002
“Gabon,” Trafficking in Persons Report, Department of State, 2002
“Gabon,” International Religious Freedom Report, Department of State, 2002
“The World is Small,” op-ed, Lufkin Daily News, 07/2002
Letter to the Editor on War on Terrorism, International Herald Tribune, 05/2001
“Luxembourg,” Human Rights Practices, Department of State, 2000, 2001
“Luxembourg,” Trafficking in Persons Report, Department of State, 2000, 2001
“Luxembourg,” International Religious Freedom Report, Department of State, 2000, 2001
Classified political articles in U.S. intelligence community publications including the President’s
Daily Brief, the Vice President’s Daily Supplement, and the World Intelligence Review,
1996-1998
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TEACHING
Undergraduate:
History 3368O, U.S. Foreign Relations, From Revolution to Reconstruction
History 1310, History of the United States to 1877
History 3368W, Religion in America (Spring 2014)
History 4388, Modern U.S. Foreign Policy
International Studies 4380, Senior Seminar
Graduate:
History 5395, Early American Diplomacy, 1765-1865
History 5390, History of the Atlantic World, 1620-1830
History 5390, Religion in Colonial America, 1620-1745
History 5390, Religion and the U.S. Revolution, 1763-1843
History 5346, African American History
GRADUATE THESES
Chair, Katherine Elise Leal, “Education for God: The Ideological Transformation of the American
Sunday School Movement, 1790-1834,” July 2013
Chair, Christopher Simons, “The Influence of Roman Authors on John Adams and the Founding
Generation,” in progress
Reader, Kimberlee J. Ortiz, “Pushing Beyond Centuries of Inequality: How the United States
Facilitated the Normalization of Diplomatic Relations between South Korea and Japan,”
June 2013
TEACHING AWARDS
Student Foundation of Excellence Award, Texas State University
PAWS Preview Namesake
International Studies Professor of the Year, Texas State University
Alpha Chi National Honor Society Favorite Professor
2013
2013
2011-2012
2011, 2014
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee, Journal of American History (JAH)
Referee, Journal of Early American Republic (JER)
Referee, International History Review (IHR)
SELECTED COMMUNITY AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Member, Research Committee, Department of History, Texas State University, 2013-Present
Member, Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University, 2013-Present
Member, Advisory Board, Center for International Studies, Texas State University, 2013-Present
Member, Study Abroad Council, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University, 2013-Present
Member, Search Committee, Mexican-American Historian, Department of History, Texas State
University, 2012-2013
Faculty Advisor, History Club, Texas State University, 2013-Present
Faculty Advisory, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Texas State University, 2013-Present
Member, Scholarship Committee, Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2013-Present
Panelist, Religion and Immigration: Challenges in a Changing World, Catholic Student Center,
Texas State University, April 2012
Speaker, International Relations Jobs Fair, Texas State University, April 2011
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Member, Coalition of Black Faculty and Staff, Texas State University, 2011-Present
Member, Women and Gender Research Collaborative (WGRC), Center for Multicultural and
Gender Studies, Texas State University, 2011-Present
Member, Library, Committee, Department of History, Texas State University, 2010-Present
Panelist, Pi Sigma Alpha Panel on the Political Unrest in the Middle East, Department of Political
Science, April 2011
Keynote Speaker, “The ‘I’ of International Affairs: Intersections of Ideals, Imaginations and
Individuals,” International Studies Banquet and Award Ceremony, Center for International
Studies, Texas State University-San Marcos, April 2009
Co-Founder, Ronald A. and Colette D. Johnson Foreign Affairs Scholarship, Texas State
University-San Marcos
SELECTED AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Alumni Achievement Award, Alumni Association, Texas State University
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, College of Liberal Arts,
Texas State University
Recognition from U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs
Recognition from U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
U.S. Congressional Citation for excellence in government service
Texas State Legislature Citation for service to U.S. government
Key-to-the-City of Lufkin, Texas, with Mayoral Citation for professional excellence
U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal
U.S. Air Force Achievement Medal
U.S. Air Force Southwest Asia Service Medal
2009
2008
2002
2001
2001
2001
2001
1994
1992
1992
LANGUAGE SKILLS
French – speak and read with professional proficiency
Italian – speak and read with professional proficiency
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH)
Baptist History and Heritage Society (BH&HS)
American Baptist Historical Society
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