CURRICULUM VITAE
HOWARD EUGENE JOHNSON
EDUCATION
Doctor of Humanities, Honolulu University of Arts & Sciences, 1990
Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1982–89
M.A., New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, 1977
B.S., Columbia University, School of General Studies, Comparative Literature, 1966
EMPLOYMENT
9/86–12/89: Visiting Lecturer—University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ethnic Studies Program
1/84–6/85: Visiting Lecturer—LaGuardia Community College, Social Studies Division
3/82–10/83: Technical Advisor—Francis Ford Coppola film, The Cotton Club
9/71–8/82: Adjunct Associate Professor—Department of Sociology; Associate Professor—Department of Black Studies (1971–74)
3/69–7/71: Assistant to the Director—Ethical Culture Schools; Project Director—Fieldston School Upward Bound
2/68–3/69: Field Supervisor—Social Sciences Research Unit, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
9/66–10/67: Documentation Specialist—Psychiatric Epidemiological Research Unit, Columbia Univeristy College of Physicians and Surgeons
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Life Member of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
Life Member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart
Charter Member of the Afro-American Association, Honolulu, Hawaii
Life Member, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Member of the Screen Actors Guild
First Vice-Chairman, Hudson Valley Economic Development District, 1981–82
Founded and Chaired Hudson Valley Minority Regional Congress, 1979–82
Reorganized and Chaired Strand Community Organization to Rehabilitate the Environment, Kingston, NY, 1978–82
Associate Editor, Time Capsule, Non-Governmental Organization, United Nations 1984
PUBLICATIONS
“Racism and Surplus Repression,” Community Review, Volume V, Number One, Spring 1983
“Education and the Institutionalization of Racism,” Resources in Education, ERIC Document, May 1976
Fieldston School Upward Bound Manual, 1971
PAPERS
“A Sociological Appraisal of Harlem Jazz in the ’30s and ’40s.” Mid-Atlantic Radical Historians Organization Convention, Columbia University, April 1977
“Minorities and Liberal Arts Education.” Crisis in the Liberal Arts Conference, SUNY at New Falls, February 1981
“Marcuse’s Theory of Surplus Repression and Unconscious Racism.” Eastern Sociological Society Convention, November 1982
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTIONS
The Cotton Club. American Museum of Natural History, December 1983.
The Harlem Renaissance. American Museum of Natural History, November 1983
The Story of Sojourner Truth. SUNY New Falls, March 1981
RADIO
Produced Jazz Shows, WBAI, 1977–78
Produced Afro-Hawaii News Show, KTUH, 1988–89
Produced Neighborhood Support Network Program, Station WSTX, Christiansted, USVI, 1991–92
FILMS
Featured in Duke Ellington, PBS, The Great Depression, The Story of Frank Marshall Davis and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, 1987
Featured in Oscar-nominated documentary Seeing Red, April 1984
TELEVISION
Featured in The Upward Bounders, WNBC-TV, May 1970
NEWSPAPER
Editor, Afro-Hawaii News, March 1987 to 1989
LANGUAGES
Speak and read French
MENTIONS
Who’s Who in the East, 1976–81
Who’s Who in America, 1979–80
Who’s Who in the World, 1990–94
WORK IN PROGRESS
Red, White, and Black: An Autobiography
REFERENCES
Dr. Ruth Bennett, Deputy Director, Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. John O. Cato, Social Sciences Division, LaGuardia Community College
Dr. John Henrik Clark, Chairman Emeritus, Department of Puerto Rican and Black Studies, Hunter College
Dr. Barbara Ann Scott, Department of Sociology, State University College of New Paltz, New York
Dr. Glenn Paige, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii