Susan Lee Johnson

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,{{cite web |title=UNLV |url=https://www.unlv.edu/ |website=University of Nevada, 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 in Madison, 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/}}

• 2001 Bancroft Prize

• 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. {{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 }}

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