Douglas Hamilton Johnson is an American scholar who lives in Britain who specializes in the history of North East Africa, Sudan and the Southern Sudan. He was a resource person in the 2003 Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement negotiations over the Three Areas and later a member of the Abyei Boundary Commission. Since then, he has advised the Government of South Sudan on North-South boundary issues.
Personal life
In 1977, Johnson married Wendy James, a British anthropologist and academic. Together, they have had two children: one son and one daughter.
“Decolonizing the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories and National Development”, in Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present,, Woodbrige & Rochester NY: James Currey, 2009,
“Tribe or Nationality? The Sudanese Diaspora and the Kenyan Nubis”, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Volume 3, Number 1, pp. 112–31, 2009
“Political Intelligence, Colonial Ethnography and Analytical Anthropology in the Sudan”, Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007
“Darfur: Peace, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in Sudan”, in Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa, Oxford: James Currey, 2006,
', James Currey: Oxford, 2003,
Editor, "Series B, Volume 5 " in British Documents on the End of Empire, 1998
Joanna Macrae, Mark Bradbury, Susanne Jaspars, Douglas Johnson & Mark Duffield, "" in Disasters, Volume 21 Issue 3, Pages 223 - 243, September 1997
Karim, Ataul, Mark Duffield, Susanne Jaspars, Aldo Benini, Joanna Macrae, Mark Bradbury, Douglas Johnson & George Larbi. Operation Lifeline Sudan : a review
Wendy James, Gerd Baumann & Douglas Johnson, eds, Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883, London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996,
Editor, C.A. Willis, The Upper Nile Province Handbook: A Report on Peoples and Government in the Southern Sudan, 1931, Oriental and African Archives 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1995,
David M. Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson, eds, Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History, London: James Currey, 1995,
Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994,
Editor, Governing the Nuer: Documents by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography, 1922-1931, Oxford: JASO, 1993,
"Salim Wilson: The Black Evangelist of the North", Journal of Religion in Africa, Volume 21, Number 1, pp. 26–41, 1991
"Criminal Secrecy: The Case of the Zande 'Secret Societies'" in Past & Present, Volume 130, Number 1, pp. 170–200, 1991
“Political Ecology in the Upper Nile: The Twentieth Century Expansion of the Pastoral ‘Common Economy’”, Journal of African History, Volume 30, Number 3, pp. 463-86, 1989
Douglas H. Johnson & David M. Anderson, eds, The Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History, London: Lester Crook Academic Publishing, 1988,
Wendy James & Douglas H. Johnson, eds, Vernacular Christianity: Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion, Oxford: JASO, 1988,
"" in Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour, London: Routledge, 1988
“On the Nilotic Frontier: Imperial Ethiopia in the Southern Sudan, 1898-1936”, in The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986
“The Death of Gordon: a Victorian Myth”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 285–310, 1982
“Tribal Boundaries and Border Wars: Nuer-Dinka Relations in the Sobat and Zaraf Valleys, c. 1860-1976”, Journal of African History, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 183–203, 1982
"Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer, and the Sudan Political Service" in African Affairs, Volume 81, Number 323, pp. 231–246, 1982
