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About Jeffrey A. Johnson

Jeff Johnson is a Professor of History and Director of the History Graduate Program at Providence College - where he teaches courses on the Progressive Era, labor history, and the U.S. West. He is the author of "They Are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925" (published by the University of Oklahoma in 2008) and his research centers on radical labor and politics in the early twentieth century American West. He received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 2004 and served as the James H. Bradley Fellow at the Montana Historical Society in 2007 and as Visiting Fellow at Harvard University in 2009.

Positions

2016 - Present Professor, Providence College History
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2011 - 2018 Director of American Studies, Providence College
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2011 - 2016 Associate Professor, Providence College
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2008 Visiting Fellow, W.E.B. Dubois Institute, Harvard University
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Curriculum Vitae


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Professional Service and Affiliations

2018 - Present Director, History Graduate Program, Providence College
2012 - Present National Advisory Council, Center for Western Studies
2003 - Present Advanced Placement Reader/Table Leader, AP U.S. History Exam
Present Member, American Historical Association
Present Member, American Studies Association
Present Member, Labor and Working Class History Association
Present Member, Montana Historical Society
Present Member, Organization of American Historians
Present Member, Rhode Island Labor History Society
Present Member, Western History Association
2015 - 2016 Editorial Board, Journal of the West
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Honors and Awards

  • Committee on Aid to Faculty Research (CAFR) Grant, Providence College
  • NEH Visiting Fellow, The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
  • James H. Bradley Fellowship, Montana Historical Society

Courses

  • Seminar: Labor & Radicalism
  • Seminar: The Gilded Age
  • U.S. Labor History
  • The Progressive Era
  • The American West
  • Thinking & Writing about History
  • Introduction to Public History

Education

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2004 Ph.D., Ph.D., Washington State University ‐ United States History & Public History
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2000 MA, Washington State University ‐ United States History & Public History
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1998 BA, Carroll College ‐ Speech-Communication Theory
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1998 BA, (magna cum laude with departmental honors), Carroll College ‐ History
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Books (2)

Articles and Book Chapters (8)

Book Contributions (1)

Edited Books (1)

Book Reviews (18)