Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur

Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur is an independent transdisciplinary researcher, writer, curator, scholar, and memory- and cultural worker. Araba is also a lecturer teaching at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is part of the directors collective of MUSMIG (Museum for Migration), a museum still struggling to exist in Vienna. She was co-founder of Pamoja, a movement of the young African Diaspora in Austria, which initiated the Black History Month in Austria in 1997 and the Research Group on Black Austrian History, with whom she created the Decolonizing Vienna Tour in 2007. For the last decades, Araba has been engaged in intersectional theory building and critical memory work. She obtained her M.A. in African studies from the University of Vienna in transdisciplinary self-composed combination with racism, migration, and diaspora studies. Her thesis, based on historical discourse analysis, examined Black imagology in the German-speaking world from the Middle Ages onward. Araba completed her Ph.D. in Black politics, international relations with a minor in African diasporan history at Howard University, US.