Amy M. Johnson

Dr. Amy M. Johnson (she/her) is a leader, practitioner, and scholar in general education, high-impact practices, and equity-minded, student-centered curricular reform.  

She has overseen general education programs and implemented high-impact practices, led faculty development workshops and curricular reforms at several universities, and presented her work at national conferences, including AAC&U and the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis. Amy has also led two university teams through the General Education and Assessment Institute and served as an expert faculty member for the program. 

Amy co-authored a chapter titled “Institutional and Instructional Humility for Equity-Forward Teaching and Learning” in Recentering Learning: Complexity, Resilience, and Adaptability in Higher Education and published “Marginalized and Minoritized in General Education: A Call for Better Implementation Design” in the Journal of General Education. She also has a forthcoming chapter titled “Transdisciplinary and Decolonial Frameworks for the Administration of General Education” in General Education in Higher Education. Amy serves on the Editorial Review Board for Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE) Journal, the Board of Directors for Bringing Theory to Practice, and the Research and Scholarship Committee for the Society for Experiential Education.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and African Diaspora Studies from Tufts University and her master’s and doctoral degrees at Duke University, where she focused on pre-colonial West African History, early colonial Caribbean History, and comparative slave studies.

Dr. Amy M. Johnson is the assistant vice provost for academic success and affiliated faculty in African American and African Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. 

Areas of Expertise

• General Education
• Curriculum Reform
• High Impact Practices
• Faculty Development and Engagement
• Budgeting and Communication Strategies