Short Vita

Paul E. Johnson, Professor
Department of History
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Office phone: (803) 777 9587
Fax: (803) 777 4494
e-mail: pejohnson@sc.edu

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B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1965
PhD, UCLA, 1975

Principal Publications:

with Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
(Oxford, 1994);

with John M. Murrin, James M. McPherson, Gary Gerstle, Emily Rosenberg, and Norman Rosenberg,
Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (Harcourt Brace, 1995);

editor, African-American Christianity: Essays in History (University of California Press, 1994);

A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
(Hill & Wang, 1978).

Articles and essay reviews in The New Republic, New England Quarterly, American Quarterly,
Reviews in American History, Encyclopedia of American Social History

Work in Progress:

Dangerous Play: A Life of Sam Patch, 1799-1829

Strange Cargo: The Michigan Descent at Niagara, 1827.

Ongoing research on popular entertainments in British North America, 1780s-1840s.

Awards:

Merl Curti Prize (1980);
NEH/American Antiquarian Society Fellowship (1985-86);
Richard P. McCormick Prize (1989);
Faculty Fellowship, Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah (1989-90);
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1995-96)
 

Selected convention panels and invited lectures:

American Philosophical Society, American Antiquarian Society, University of Paris VII,
University of Milan, University of Virginia, Smith College, Brown University, Brandeis University,
University of Connecticut, University of Delaware, Sunstone Symposium, Princeton University,
American Studies Association, Organization of American Historians, Social Science History
Association, Colgate Rochester Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, The Strong Museum, Jordan
School District (Utah), Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference (Salt Lake City), Advanced Placement
Institute of the American Scholastic Association (California).