# Susan Lee Johnson > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Lee_Johnson > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Lee_Johnson.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lee_Johnson > Source revision: 1339247631 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American historian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{infobox person |name=Susan Lee Johnson |education=[Carthage College](/source/Carthage_College) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))
[Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University) ([MA](/source/Master_of_Arts))
[Yale University](/source/Yale_University) ([PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy)) |occupation=Historian |awards=[Bancroft Prize](/source/Bancroft_Prize) (2001) }} '''Susan Lee Johnson''' is an American historian. ==Life== In 1978 Johnson received a [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in [history](/source/history) from [Carthage College](/source/Carthage_College) in [Kenosha, Wisconsin](/source/Kenosha%2C_Wisconsin), and in 1984 an [M.A.](/source/Master_of_Arts) at [Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University), and in 1993 a Ph.D. from [Yale University](/source/Yale_University). Johnson currently holds the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,{{cite web |title=UNLV |url=https://www.unlv.edu/ |website=[University of Nevada, Las Vegas](/source/University_of_Nevada%2C_Las_Vegas) |access-date=27 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725172342/https://www.unlv.edu/ |archive-date=Jul 25, 2023 |language=en |url-status=live}} and is an emeritus professor at the [University of Wisconsin](/source/University_of_Wisconsin) in [Madison, Wisconsin](/source/Madison%2C_Wisconsin).{{cite web |url=https://www.unlv.edu/people/susan-johnson |website=Susan Lee Johnson faculty webpage|title=Susan Lee Johnson |date=29 August 2019 }}{{cite web |last1=Susan Lee Johnson faculty webpage |title=Johnson, Susan Lee |date=15 May 2017 |url=https://history.wisc.edu/people/johnson-susan-lee/}} ==Awards== * 2001 [Bancroft Prize](/source/Bancroft_Prize) ==Works== * ''Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-4696-5883-4}} {{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Susan Lee |title=Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West |date=2020 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=978-1-4696-5883-4 |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9781469658834/writing-kit-carson/}} * {{cite book |author=Susan Lee Johnson |display-authors=0 |title=Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush | url=https://archive.org/details/roaringcamp00susa | url-access=registration |location=New York| publisher= W. W. Norton| year= 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](/source/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. * {{cite book |author=Susan Lee Johnson |display-authors=0 |chapter='My own private life': Toward a History of Desire in Gold Rush California| title=Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California |editor=Kevin Starr |editor2=Richard Orsi | place=Berkeley| publisher= University of California Press | year= 2000| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC&q=in%20Barbarous%20Soil%3A%20People%2C%20Culture%2C%20and%20Community%20in%20Gold%20Rush%20California&pg=PA316 |isbn=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, {{ISBN|978-0-19-510048-8}} **{{cite book |author=Susan Lee Johnson |display-authors=0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNLwEt_htKkC&q=Women+and+Gender+in+the+American+West:+Jensen-Miller+Prize+Essays+from+the+Coalition+for+Western+Women%E2%80%99s+History&pg=PA440| title=Women and Gender in the American West: Jensen-Miller Prize Essays from the Coalition for Western Women's History |editor=Mary Ann Irwin |editor2=James Brooks | place=Albuquerque| publisher= University of New Mexico Press| year= 2004| isbn= 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 * {{cite book |author=Susan Lee Johnson |display-authors=0 |url=https://archive.org/details/unequalsisters00vick_0| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/unequalsisters00vick_0/page/105 105]| quote=Susan Lee Johnson.| chapter="Domestic" Live in the Diggings: The Southern Mines in the California Gold Rush| title=Unequal sisters: a multicultural reader in U.S. women's history |editor=Vicki Ruíz |editor2=Ellen Carol DuBois | publisher=Routledge| year= 2000| isbn= 978-0-415-92516-7 }} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Susan Lee}} Category:21st-century American historians Category:Living people Category:Carthage College alumni Category:Arizona State University alumni Category:Yale University alumni Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Category:American women historians Category:21st-century American women writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Bancroft Prize winners {{US-historian-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Susan Lee Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lee_Johnson) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lee_Johnson?action=history)). 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