Janet Barber is a writer, researcher, and behavioral scientist whose research has been recognized in various media. She is a leader in higher education, active in the humanities as well as the social and mathematical sciences. In 2014, she published, with Asamoah Nkwanta, the first full reproduction of Benjamin Banneker's handwritten notes on the 17-year magicicada in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
Long Overlooked, Benjamin Banneker Is Recognized for Work on Cicadas and against Slavery
The Black naturalist’s research in the 1700s was respected but not accepted, just like his petition to Thomas Jefferson to end oppression