Participant Info
- First Name
- Marilynn
- Last Name
- Johnson
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- johnsohi@bc.edu
- Affiliation
- Boston College
- Website URL
- https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/history/people/faculty-directory/marilynn-johnson.html
- Keywords
- urban history, violence, immigration, Boston
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Marilynn S. Johnson is Professor of History at Boston College where she teaches modern US urban and social history. She received her Ph.D. in history at New York University and has taught at Southern Methodist University and the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies at MIT. Her research focuses on migration, urban social relations, race, gender and violence. Her books include The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (1993) and Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City (2004). Most recently, she published The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since the 1960s (2015). She now directs a public history website called Global Boston, which explores and documents immigration history in greater Boston.
- Recent Publications
The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Region Since the 1960s
- Media Coverage
- New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Daily News
- Social Media
- @johnsohi
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Urban History
