Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson (he/him) is the head of the Creative Technologies and Scholarship department at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. He heads the department that created and oversees The Workshop, the multimedia studio and makerspace that opened in 2015. He was previously the head of outreach and public services in the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library, and was a librarian at Thomas Jefferson’s historic home, Monticello. Eric’s research interests include GIS and visual design; creativity in libraries; communicating scholarship through creative technologies; and the history of libraries and museums. He has an MA in U.S. history from George Mason University, an MSLIS from Florida State University, and is completing an MS in cartography/GIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.