Participant Info
- First Name
- Victoria
- Last Name
- Johnson
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- vjohnsn@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Hunter College of the City University of New York
- Website URL
- americaneden.org
- Keywords
- Early Republic: medicine, botany, natural history, New York City, environmental history, civil society
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College (City University of New York), where I teach on nonprofits, arts management, and the history of New York City. I earned my undergraduate degree in philosophy from Yale University (1991) and my PhD in sociology from Columbia University (2002). Before joining Hunter College in 2015, I taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for thirteen years on philanthropy and nonprofits. In the 2015-2016 academic year, I was a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and in the summer of 2016 I was a Mellon Visiting Scholar at The New York Botanical Garden’s Humanities Institute.
- Recent Publications
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic (Liveright, a division of W. W. Norton, 2018)
Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
One of Amazon’s Best History Books of 2018
One of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2018
- Media Coverage
- New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Weekly Standard, Nature, Scientific American, Popular Science, Lapham's Quarterly
- Social Media
- @VSJohnsonNYC
- Country Focus
- United States, England, Scotland, France
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, France, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Environment, Medicine, Museums, Science, Urban History
