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, ΜμΜμ³ΤΉΟ, 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 βSouthern Ladies, New Women: Southern Women at Northern Colleges, 1865-1920β, 2001-2002
A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize, for best article in Southern womenβs history, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2001