Susan Lee Johnson

Susan Lee Johnson holds the inaugural Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is President-Elect of the Western History Association. Johnson is the author of WRITING KIT CARSON: FALLEN HEROES IN A CHANGING WEST and ROARING CAMP: THE SOCIAL WORLD OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. A historian of western North America and its borderlands, Johnson writes about the history of gender, desire, and embodiment, and of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. Johnson grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and earned a B.A. at Carthage College, an M.A. at Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. at Yale University. Johnson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has also taught at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Michigan.