History Department Faculty
Marilynn Johnson
Professor
Marilynn Johnson
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S339
Telephone: 617-552-8453
Email: marilynn.johnson@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-5871-7747
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. Her latest book, The New Bostonians, explores the history of new immigrants in greater Boston since the 1960s. She is currently the Director of Global Boston, a digital history project and website on Boston area immigration and its history.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since the 1960s (2015).
- What’s New About the ‘New Immigration’: Traditions and Transformations in the United States Since 1965 (co-editor, 2014)
- “The ‘Quiet Revival’: New Immigrants and the Transformation of Christianity in Greater Boston,” in Religion and American Culture (2014).
- "The Career Girl Murders: Gender, Race and Crime in 1960s New York," Women Studies Quarterly (2012).
- Violence in the West: The Johnson County Range War and the Ludlow Massacre (2008)
- Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City (2003)
- American's History (4th edition, 1999)
- "Gender, Race and Rumors: Reexamining the 1943 Race Riots," in Gender & History (1998)
- The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (1993)