Susan Lee Johnson Explained

Susan Lee Johnson
Nationality:	American
Education:	Carthage College (BA) Arizona State University (MA) Yale University (PhD)
Occupation:	Historian
Awards:	Bancroft Prize (2001)

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, Wisconsin.^{[2] [3]}

Awards

• 2001 Bancroft Prize

Works

• Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ^[4]
• Book: Susan Lee Johnson . 0 . Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush . registration . New York. W. W. Norton. 2000. 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.
• “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.
• Book: Susan Lee Johnson . 0 . 'My own private life': Toward a History of Desire in Gold Rush California. Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California . Kevin Starr . Richard Orsi . Berkeley. University of California Press . 2000. https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC&q=in%20Barbarous%20Soil%3A%20People%2C%20Culture%2C%20and%20Community%20in%20Gold%20Rush%20California&pg=PA316 . 978-0-520-22496-4 .
• “‘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,
  • Book: Susan Lee Johnson . 0 . Women and Gender in the American West: Jensen-Miller Prize Essays from the Coalition for Western Women's History . Mary Ann Irwin . James Brooks . Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press. 2004. 978-0-8263-3599-9 .
• "The United States of Jessie Benton Fremont: Corresponding with the Nation", Reviews in American History, Volume 23, Number 2, June 1995
• Book: Susan Lee Johnson . 0 . Unequal sisters: a multicultural reader in U.S. women's history . registration. 105. Susan Lee Johnson.. "Domestic" Live in the Diggings: The Southern Mines in the California Gold Rush. Vicki Ruíz . Ellen Carol DuBois . Routledge. 2000. 978-0-415-92516-7 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: UNLV . . 27 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230725172342/https://www.unlv.edu/ . Jul 25, 2023 . en . live.
2. Web site: Susan Lee Johnson . Susan Lee Johnson faculty webpage. 29 August 2019 .
3. Web site: Susan Lee Johnson faculty webpage . Johnson, Susan Lee . 15 May 2017 .
4. Book: Johnson . Susan Lee . Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West . 2020 . University of North Carolina Press . Chapel Hill . 978-1-4696-5883-4 .