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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
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
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.
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
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
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