Susan Lee Johnson is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

Life

In 1978 Johnson received a

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from Carthage College in

Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha () is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Kenosha County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 99,986 which made it the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, Kenos ...

, and in 1984 an

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Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

, and in 1993 a Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Johnson currently holds the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is an emeritus professor at the

University of Wisconsin A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

Madison, WI Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-larg ...

Awards

* 2001

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

Works

* ''Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. * * ''The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), co-edited with Estelle Freedman, Barbara Gelpi, and

Kath Weston Kath Weston (born 2 November 1958) is an American anthropologist, author and academic. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has twice received the Ruth Benedict Prize for anthropological works. Biography Kath Weston was born in Illinois on 2 Novembe ...

. * “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. * *“‘A memory sweet to soldiers’: The Significance of Gender in the History of the ‘American West,’” ''Western Historical Quarterly'' 24, no. 4 (1993). Reprinted in: **Clyde Milner ed. (1996) ''A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West'', New York: Oxford University Press, ** * "The United States of Jessie Benton Fremont: Corresponding with the Nation", ''Reviews in American History'', Volume 23, Number 2, June 1995 *

References

21st-century American historians Living people Carthage College alumni Arizona State University alumni Yale University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty American women historians 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) Bancroft Prize winners {{US-historian-stub