Dr. Johnson's research has two areas of focus: 1) the influence of race and gender on young Black women's interpretations of family relationships, particularly daughter-father relationships and 2) fatherhood discourses and policies. She is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled, "Through Daughters' Eyes." The book is based on seventy-nine in-depth qualitative interviews with forty young Black women. In the book, she proposes new ways of thinking about Black daughter-father relationships that engage with, but also challenge, existing tropes of Black femininity and fatherhood.Dr. Johnson is also exploring Black fathers' practices and perspectives within family relationships and examining daughter-father relationships and public policies. Her research on fatherhood policy uses qualitative analysis to examine race and gender discourses within federal and state-level fatherhood policies and programs in the United States. This research highlights mainstream understandings of race and gender that have concrete consequences for how men parent. A final area of research is an investigation of racialized gender ideologies in Black women's social media content and narratives. Her findings are important, not only for scholars of Black family life, but for intellectuals interested in the ways race, class, and gender intersect to influence how people make sense of their family relationships and their future possibilities.