Marilynn Johnson
Professor
Marilynn Johnson
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S339
Telephone: 617-552-8453
Email: marilynn.johnson@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- B.A., Stanford University
- M.Phil, New York University
- Ph.D., New York University
Research Interests
Modern U.S. urban, immigration, and social history; the American West
Department
Biography
Professor Johnson's work focuses on urban social relations in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century America. She teaches courses on social movements, urban and working-class history, violence, and the American West. Her earlier work looked at internal migration during World War II, police brutality, and violence on the mining and cattle frontiers.聽 Her latest book,聽The New 艾可直播ians, explores the history of new immigrants in greater 艾可直播 since the 1960s. She is currently the Director of , a digital history project and website on 艾可直播 area immigration and its history.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- The New 艾可直播ians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since the 1960s聽(2015).
- What鈥檚 New About the 鈥楴ew Immigration鈥�: Traditions and Transformations in the United States Since 1965聽(co-editor, 2014)
- 鈥淭he 鈥楺uiet Revival鈥�: New Immigrants and the Transformation of Christianity in Greater 艾可直播,鈥� in聽Religion and American Culture聽(2014).
- "The Career Girl Murders: Gender, Race and Crime in 1960s New York,"聽Women Studies Quarterly (2012).
- Violence in the West: The Johnson County Range War and the Ludlow Massacre聽(2008)
- Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City聽(2003)
- American's History聽(4th edition, 1999)
- "Gender, Race and Rumors: Reexamining the 1943 Race Riots," in聽Gender & History聽(1998)
- The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II聽(1993)