Jeffrey A. Johnson
Online C.V.
Education:
2004 Ph.D., United States History & Public History, Washington State University
Dissertation: "Socialist Party Politics and Activism in the Northwest, 1895-1925"
Chair: LeRoy Ashby,Claudius & Mary Johnson Distinguished Professor of History2000 M. A., United States History & Public History, Washington State University
Thesis: "Border Patrols, Buffalo Soldiers, and Boredom: Fort Assinniboine, MT, 1879-1911"
Chair: Orlan J. Svingen1998 B. A., History, Carroll College
1998 B. A., Speech-Communication Theory, Carroll College
Graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors
Publications:
Books:They Are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925. Forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press (Fall 2008).
Articles:
"The Talking Stage of Socialism Has Passed: The Beginnings of Northwest Socialism, 1895-1900." Idaho Yesterdays 47 (Spring / Summer 2006): 6-29.
"The Gilded Age and the Frontier Military: Society and Culture at Fort Assinniboine, Montana, 1879-1905." Journal of the West 45 (Summer 2006): 65-71.
"'The Political Trend is Steadily Toward Socialism': Building a Socialist Party in the Northwest, 1901-1905." Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History (forthcoming).
Book Reviews:
Review of Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007), by David Berman, in Montana, the Magazine of Western History (forthcoming).
Review of Eckhardt: There Once Was a Congressman from Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007), by Gary A. Keith, in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (forthcoming).
Review of Camille Patha: Geography of Desire (Salem, OR: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, 2006), by Matthew Kangas, in Journal of the West (forthcoming).
Review of Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860-1960 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), by R. Alton Lee, in South Dakota History 36 (Winter 2006): 409-410.
Review of A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903 ( Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 2004), by O. Gene Clanton, in Great Plains Quarterly 26 (Summer 2006): 208-209.
Review of George McGovern: A Political Life, a Political Legacy (South Dakota State Historical Society, 2004), edited by Robert P. Watson, in North Dakota History (forthcoming).
Review of Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West ( New Mexico, 2003), by Frank N. Schubert, in South Dakota History 35 (Summer 2005): 182.
Review of The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle ( North Carolina, 2004), by Kathleen Flake, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Winter 2004/2005): 47-48.
Review of Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002), by John Douglas Belshaw, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly 95 (Summer 2004): 149.
Review of Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movements Outcomes (Duke, 2003), by Ann-Marie Syzmanski, in American Studies International 42 (June-October 2004): 279-280.
Review of Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth Century West ( Indiana, 2003), by Carlos Schwantes, in Montana, the Magazine of Western History 54 (Spring 2004): 85-86.
Awards & Fellowships:2008 Visiting Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute, W.E.B DuBois Institute, Harvard University
2008 Augustana Faculty Development Research Grant (ARAF)
2007 James H. Bradley Fellowship, Montana Historical Society
2007 Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Grant, Augustana College
2006 Faculty Recognition Award Nominee, Augustana Student Association (ASA)
2006 Augustana Faculty Development Research Grant (ARAF)
2005 Faculty Development Grant (2), Archibald Granville Bush Foundation
2004 Fellow, West Point Summer Seminar in Military History, United States Military Academy
2003 Pettyjohn Fellow, Department of History, Washington State University
2003 Herman J. Deutsch Fellow, Department of History, Washington State University
2001-04 Three Pettyjohn Research & Travel Grants, Department of History, Washington State University
2003 Student Project Award, National Council on Public History
2000 Award of Outstanding Merit, Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
Select Presentations & Conferences:
“‘One of the Most Charming of Men’: The Paradox of Copper King Attorney William Scallon.” Western Social Science Association, Denver, Colorado. April 2008.
"'Doing Our Best to Educate the Bourgeoisie:' Lewis Duncan and Montana Socialism," Invited Lecture, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. October 2007."The 'New' Old Labor History: (Re)Considering Institutional and Organizational Examinations of the Working Class in the West." Athens Institute for Education and Research, Annual International Conference on History, Athens, Greece. December 2007.
"'Doing Our Best to Educate the Bourgeoisie:' Lewis Duncan and Montana Socialism," Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska – Omaha. March 2007.
“‘Equal Opportunity For All. That’s All’: South Dakota’s H. L. Loucks and the Fight for Reform, 1885-1928,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, University of South Dakota. October 2006.
Chair: “North of Omaha,” panel at the Dakota Conference, Center for Western Studies. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. April 2006.
Commentator: "Midwest Politics in the Twentieth Century," panel at the Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska – Omaha. March 2006.
"The Case for Kurt: Nirvana, the Nineties, and the Narrative." Northern Great Plains History Conference, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. September 2005.
"Islamic Resurgence and Holy War: The Former Soviet Union and Indonesia." Invited Moderator: Post-9/11 September Project, Holland Library, Washington State University. September 2004.
"Socialist Victories and Splendid Gains: The Politics of Northwest Socialism, 1911-1912." Journal of Policy History Conference, University of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Part of a panel I organized on Class, Gender, and Ideology in the Northwest. May 2004.
"Collaborating at Campbell House in Spokane." Washington Heritage Conference, Olympia, Washington. September 2001.
"Life at a Montana Fort: Fort Assinniboine, Montana, 1879-1911." Pacific Northwest History Conference, Spokane, Washington. April 2000.
"A Social History of the World War II Era, 1943-1945, as seen Through the Eyes of U.S. Soldier William A. Reynolds." Northwest Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Portland, Oregon. April 1998.
Affiliations:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Montana Historical Society
Phi Alpha Theta
Board Member, Center for Western Studies
References:
Dr. LeRoy Ashby, Washington State University
Dr. Mathias D. Bergmann, Randolph-Macon College
Dr. Orlan J. Svingen, Washington State University
Dr. Janice Rutherford, University of Oregon
Dr. John W.W. Mann, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Dr. Robert Swartout, Jr., Carroll College