David A. Johnson is a historian of British imperial history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, with a primary interest in the colonial-built environment. His research has appeared in Palgrave's Britain and the World Book Series and in academic journals such as Urban History, Radical History Review, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Britain and the World, and the History Teacher. He has received two Fulbright Fellowships, one as a student and more recently as a scholar.