Joan Marie Johnson
College of Arts and Sciences
Office:
LWH 4092
Phone:
(773) 442-5642
Email:
joanmjohnson@comcast.net
Office Hours:
Fall 2015 Semester: Tuesday 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; Wednesday 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Country:
United States
Expertise
Women's History; African American History; Southern History
Hist 214: United States History to 1877
Hist 215: United States History, 1877-Present
Hist 337: The History of the South, 1877-Present
Hist 338: Women in American History
Hist 392: Problems in History: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in American History
Hist 436: Readings in Women's History of the United States (Graduate)
Expertise
Women's History; African American History; Southern History
Research Interests
History of women, philanthropy, education, feminism, and social reform; Funding Feminism: Wealthy Women, Philanthropy and the Women's Movement, 1880-1965 (book manuscript in progress)
Education
University of California, Los Angeles United States History, Ph.D., 1997
Selected Publications
Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915 (University of Georgia Press, 2008). Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930 (University Press of Florida, 2004). Co-editor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume III (University of Georgia Press, 2012). Co-editor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume II (University of Georgia Press, 2010). Co-editor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume I (University of Georgia Press, 2009). Editor, Southern Women at Vassar: the Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916 (University of South Carolina Press, 2002)
Additional Information
Co-founder and Co-director,
Awards and Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2013
University Instructor Excellence Award, ݮƵ, 2009 and 2012
Foundation for Women in Medicine Fellowship at the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2010-2011
Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant, for “Southern Ladies, New Women: Southern Women at Northern Colleges, 1865-1920”, 2001-2002
A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize, for best article in Southern women’s history, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2001