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CURRICULUM VITA

NAME:     Paul E. Johnson

ADDRESS:      Department of History
                        University of South Carolina
                        Columbia, SC 29208
                        work ph: (803) 777 5195
                        home ph: (803) 779 0622
                        fax: (803) 777 4494
                        e-mail: pejohnson@sc.edu

BIRTHDATE:    15 August 1942 BIRTHPLACE: Los Angeles

EDUCATION:    University of California at Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1975

                            University of California at Los Angeles, M.A., 1969

                            University of California at Berkeley, B.A., 1965

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

                Professor of History, University of South Carolina, 1998-

                Professor of History, University of Utah, 1997-98

                Associate Professor of History, University of Utah, 1986-97

                Lecturer in History, Princeton University, 1983-85

                Associate Professor of History, Yale University, 1980-83

                Assistant Professor of History, Yale University, 1975-80

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

        with John M. Murrin, James M. McPherson, Gary Gerstle, Emily Rosenberg,
        and Norman Rosenberg, Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People
        (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, cloth and paper, 1996; 2d edition, 1998)

        with Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in
        19th- Century America(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994; paperback, 1995)
        Selection of Reader's Subscription and The History Book Club; Editor's Choice,
        American Heritage; a Voice Literary Supplement 1994 Best Book of the Year

        Editor, African-American Christianity: Essays in History (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
        University of California Press, cloth and paper, 1994)

        A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
        (New York: Hill andWang, cloth and paper, 1978) Co-winner of the Merl Curti Award of
        the Organization of American Historians, a prize awarded semi-annually to a book in social
        history. Twentieth Printing, 1995; 74,886 copies in print as of Autumn 1998.

            Excerpted in:

            Sean Wilentz, ed., Major Problems in the Early Republic, 1787-1848
            (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1992)

            Norman K. Risjord, ed., Insights on American History (New York: Harcourt,
            Brace, Jovanovich, 1990)

            Gary B. Nash and Cynthia Shelton, eds., The Private Side of American History
            (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987)

            Thomas R. Frazier, ed., The Underside of American History (New York: Harcourt,
            Brace, Jovanovich,1982)

            "Society and Revivals: A Shopkeeper's Millennium," Wilson Quarterly 3 (Spring 1979), 88-96

Articles:

        "'Art' and the Language of Progress in Early-Industrial Paterson: Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge,"
        American Quarterly 40 (Winter 1988), 433-49. Winner of the Richard P.McCormick Prize
        of the New Jersey State Historical Commission, 1989.

        "The Modernization of Mayo Greenleaf Patch: Land, Family, and Marginality in New
        England, 1766-1818," New England Quarterly 55 (December 1982), 488-516.

            Reprinted in:

            Peter S. Onuf, ed., The Early Republic, 1776-1815 (Hamden, CT: Garland
            Publishing, 1993)

            Nancy A. Hewitt, ed., Women, Family, and Communities: Readings in American
            History (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1990)

            Gary B. Nash and Cynthia Shelton, eds., The Private Side of American History
            (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987)

            Gary B. Nash, ed., Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People
            (New York: Harper and Row, 1986)

Surveys, Essay Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles:

            "Religion: Religious Issues in Politics," Scribner's Encyclopedia of the United States in
            the Nineteenth Century (1000 words, forthcoming)

            "United States History, 1600-1865," Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia (CD-ROM,
            forthcoming), 27,500 words

            "The Alchemist," The New Republic, June 12, 1995

            "The Market Revolution," in Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W.
            Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Social History , 3 vols. (New York:
            Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), 2:545-60. Reprint: Scribner's American History
            and Culture (CD-ROM, 1999)

            "Democracy, Patriarchy, and American Revivals, 1780-1830," Journal of Social
            History 24 (Summer 1991), 603-610.

            "Bottoms Up: Drinking, Temperance, and the Social Historians," Reviews in American
            History 13 (March 1985), 48-53.

                    Revised and Reprinted:

                    "Bebida e Abstinencia na America do seculo XIX: commentarios sobre aliteratura
                    recente," in Rubem Casar Fernandes, Roberto Damatta, andViola Sachs, eds.,
                    Brasil & UEA: Religiao e Identidade Nacional (Rio de Janiero: Graal, 1988)

                    "Drinking, temperance, and the construction identity in nineteenth-century America,"
                    Social Science Information 25 (June 1986), 521-530.

                    "Comment," in Mary R. Murrin, ed., Religion in New Jersey Life Before the Civil
                    War (Trenton: New Jersey State Historical Commission, 1985), 105-07

                    "Society, Sociability, and Power in a Nineteenth-Century City," History of Education
                    Quarterly 17 (Spring 1979), 75-79.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

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

        Strange Cargo: The Michigan Descent at Niagara, 1827

        Ongoing research on popular amusements in the United States and British Canada, 1780s-1840s

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

        John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1995-96

        Richard P. McCormick Prize for Scholarly Publication, New Jersey State Historical
        Commission, 1989

        Faculty Fellowship, University of Utah Humanities Center, 1989-90

        National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1985-86

        Research Fellowship, New Jersey State Historical Commission, 1982

        Merl Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians, 1980

        Summer Fellowship, Inter-University Consortium for Political Research, 1970

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Book Reviewer: American Historical Review, American Studies, History of Education Quarterly,
Journal of American History, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
Journal of Social History, Lingua Franca, New York History, Reviews in American History,
The New Republic, William and Mary Quarterly

Manuscript referee: American Quarterly, American Studies, Bedford Books/St. Martin's Press,
University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Journal of American History, Journal
of the Early Republic, Journal of Social History, Oxford University Press, Penn State Press,
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, University Press of New England, State
University Press of New York, University of Pennsylvania Press, E.R. Sharpe, Inc., John Wiley
and Sons, Yale University Press

Tenure/Promotion Referee: Barnard College, University of California at Los Angeles, City College
of the City University of New York, Hollins College, Oberlin College, Old Dominion University,
University of Texas at San Antonio, Tufts University, College of William and Mary

Historical Consultant: National Endowment for the Humanities: Division of Public Programs,
Documentary Films Program (1998). NEH Division of Research Programs: Editions Program
(1995), Scholarly Publications Subventions Program (1995), Collabo rative Research Program
(1996); Rochester Museum and Science Center (1991-92); Educational Testing Service (1985);
Jordan School District, Advanced Placement Program (1996), Advanced Placement Institute,
American Scholastic Association (1997)

Editorial board, Western Humanities Review , 1989-95

CONFERENCES AND INVITED LECTURES:

        "Blue Beard in America," Grand Crossings: A Symposium Honoring the Life and Work of
        Alexander Saxton, University of California at Los Angeles, 26 September 1998

        "Strange Cargo: The Michigan Descent at Niagara, 1827," The Delaware Seminar,
        University of Delaware, 16 October 1997

        Presenter, Summer Advanced Placement Institute, American Scholastic Association:
        Coastline College (California), 23 June 1997; Jordan High School (Utah), 15 August 1997

        "Strange Cargo," American Studies Program, Princeton University, 25 March 1997

        Chair, session entitled "Language, Testimony, and the Social Order in Early-Nineteenth
        Century America," American Studies Association, Kansas City, 1 November 1996

        "Strange Cargo," Conference on Festive Culture and Public Ritual in Early America,
        American Philosophical Society, 12-13 April 1996

        "Millenniums and Messiahs: A Conversation with Paul E.Johnson," Sunstone Symposium,
        Salt Lake City, 11 August 1995

        Panelist, session entitled "Practicing History: A Workshop in Narrating the Past," Narrative:
        An International Symposium, Park City, Utah, 23 April 1995

        Panelist, Symposium on The Kingdom of Matthias, Center for the Study of American
        Religion at Princeton University, 25 March 1994

        Panelist, session entitled "Triumph or Tragedy? Capitalism for the Middling Sort in the
        Nineteenth Century," Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, 17 April 1993

        "Patriarchy and Plebian Revivals, 1790-1850," Organization of American Historians,
        Louisville, 11 April 1991

        "Patriarchy and Plebian Revivals," Luncheon Address,Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
        University of Utah, 6 April 1991

        Organizer and Co-Chair, Symposium on the History of African American Christianity,
        Harvard Divinity School, 8-9 December 1989

        "Churchmen, Sportsmen, and the Moral Geography of Boomtown Rochester," Annual
        Museum Lecture, The Strong Museum, Rochester, 18 January 1989

        Chair, session entitled "Tradition and Change in Nineteenth-Century Appalachia, 1850-1890,"
        Organization of American Historians, Reno, 25 March 1988

        "Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge," Symposium on Work and Leisure in Pre-Industrial America,
        Centre de recherches sur l'histoire de Etates-Unis, University of Paris VII, 2-4 June 1987
        (Paper read and discussed in my absence)

        Commentator, session entitled "Reinterpreting Antebellum Culture," Organization of American
        Historians, Philadelphia, 4 April 1987

        "Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge," Symposium of the Milan Group in Early United States History,
        University of Milan, 10-13 June 1986 (Paper read and discussed in my absence)

        Invited Lecturer, History Faculty Seminar, Princeton University, 5 May 1986

        "Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge," Annual Lecture in American Studies, Smith College,
        15 April 1986

        "Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge," American History Colloquium, Brandeis University,
        16 January 1986

        "Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge," Henry J. Brown Memorial Conference, Paterson,
        New Jersey, 5 May 1985

        "Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge," Seminar in American Political and Social History,
        American Antiquarian Society, 22 November 1985

        "The Prophet Matthias," University of Connecticut, 31 October 1985

        "Sam Patch at Clinton Bridge," New Jersey State Historical Commission, 17 April 1985

        "The Prophet Matthias," Princeton Seminary, 15 April 1985

        "Drinking, Temperance, and the Construction of Identity in Nineteenth-Century America,"
        Symposium on National Identity, Religion, and Cultural Expression, Laboratoire de
        Recherche sur l'Imaginaire Americain and Fondation Maison des Sciences de L'Homme,
        University of Paris VIII, 10 January 1986

        Panelist, session entitled "Doing the Biographies of Ordinary People," Organization of
        American Historians, Los Angeles, 7 April 1984

        "The Historian and the Genealogist," Maine State Historical Commission, 7-8 October 1983

        Chair, session entitled "Religion in New Jersey Life Before the Civil War," Fourteenth
        Annual New Jersey History Symposium, New Jersey State Historical Commission,
        Trenton, 4 December 1982

        Participant, Symposium on Society and the Republic, 1790-1850, Milan Group in Early
        United States History, University of Milan, 2-4 June 1981

        "Revivals and Reform: Reflections on the Recent Literature," Charles Grandison Finney
        Festival, Colgate Rochester Seminary, 17 November 1981

        Chair, session entitled "Antebellum New EnglandTemperance Reform," New England
        Historical Association, New Haven, 24 October 1981

        Jacobus Lecturer, University of Virginia, 12 November 1980

        Panelist, session entitled "Revival in Rochester: Paul Johnson's A Shopkeeper's Millennium,
        Social Science History Association, Rochester, 7 November 1980

        "The Modernization of Mayo Greenleaf Patch," Social History Workshop, Brown University,
        30 October 1980

        Chair, session entitled "Fanning the Flames of the Burned Over District," Conference on
        New York State History, Binghampton, 26 April 1980

        "The Modernization of Mayo Greenleaf Patch," American Family History Lecture,
        American Studies Program, Princeton University, 24 April 1980

        Stynnvesant Memorial Lecturer, State University of New York, College at Brockport,
        20 March 1980