History Professor Presents with Student and Staff at CIC Conference

Over the past year, Dr. Johnson worked on a multi-faceted public history project Living for the City, as part of his research funded by the Council of Independent Colleges’ Humanities for the Public Good grant. Living for the City helps tell the story of Monumental Baptist Church and its decades-long partnership with Saint Peter’s University. As part of the project, students Jamie Troutman and Esther Conteh worked with Dr. Johnson and university archivist Mary Kinahan-Ockay to rediscover the Black luminaries who spoke at SPC during the 1960s and 1970s. Their research culminated in the presentation “Ecumenical Loyalties: Reading the Luminaries of the Black Freedom Movement at Saint Peter’s College,” which premiered during the campus’s Black History Month celebrations last year and was presented at the CIC Conference in Baltimore, MD.

Pictured are Jamie Troutman ’25, Dr. John Johnson, university archivist Mary Kinahan-Ockay, and Emory Edwards Senior Director of Partnerships and Institutional Relations in the Office of Advancement and External Affairs, on their way to the Council of Independent Colleges Conference in Baltimore, MD.