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Telephone: (617) 552-8453 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 433 Email: marilynn.johnson@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here Website: http://www2.bc.edu/~johnsohi |
Education
Ph.D., New York University, 1990
Fields of Interest
Modern U.S. urban and social history; the American West
Academic Profile
Professor Johnson's work focuses on urban social relations in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century America. She teaches courses on social movements and working-class history as well as the American West. She is currently completing an edited collection on the mining and range wars in the American West that will be published next year in the Bedford Series in History and Culture. She is also working on a larger book project on the history of new immigrants in Boston, 1965 to the present.
Representative Publications
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Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York (2003)
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"Enduring Myths, Changing Realities," in Cowboys, Indians, and the Big Picture (2002)
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American's History (4th edition, 1999)
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"Gender, Race and Rumors: Reexamining the 1943 Race Riots," in Gender and History (1998)
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"Mobilizing the Homefront: Labor and Politics in Oakland, California, 1943-1951" in Working People of California: Towards a New Social History of the Golden State (1995)
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"Wartime Shipyards: The Transformation of Labor in San Francisco's East Bay" in American Labor in the Era of World War II (1995)
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The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (1993)