Walter Johnson (historian)

Walter Johnson
Johnson discussing the slave trade in New Orleans, 2000.
Born	1967 (age 56–57) Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	Amherst College Princeton University
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	New York University Harvard University

Walter Johnson (born 1967) is an American historian, and a professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, where he previously (2014–2020) directed the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.