Susan Lee Johnson

Susan Lee Johnson is an American historian.

Life

In 1978 Johnson received a B.A. in history from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and in 1984 an M.A. at Arizona State University, and in 1993 a Ph.D. from Yale University. Johnson currently holds the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, [1] and is an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI.[2][3]

Awards

Works

  • Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4696-5883-4 [4]
  • Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York: W. W. Norton. 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-32099-2.
  • The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), co-edited with Estelle Freedman, Barbara Gelpi, and Kath Weston. ISBN 978-0-226-26151-5
  • “Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: ‘The Family,’ ‘The West,’ and Their Chroniclers,” in On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest, ed. David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), pp. 278-318.
  • “Nail This to Your Door: A Disputation on the Power, Efficacy, and Indulgent Delusion of Western Scholarship that Neglects the Challenge of Gender and Women’s History,” Pacific Historical Review 79, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 605-17.
  • “The Last Fandango: Women, Work, and the End of the California Gold Rush,” in Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World, ed. Kenneth N. Owens (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), pp. 230-63.

References

  1. University of Nevada, Las Vegas https://www.unlv.edu/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Susan Lee Johnson faculty webpage https://www.unlv.edu/people/susan-johnson. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Susan Lee Johnson faculty webpage. https://history.wisc.edu/people/johnson-susan-lee/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Johnson, Susan Lee (2020). Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-5883-4.
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