Jeff Johnson
Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Washington State University
Area(s) of Expertise:
Professor Jeff Johnson is a historian of radical labor, politics, and reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century American West. Dr. Johnson's work centers on how populists, socialists, and anarchists reacted to the new industrial order around them. His current book project explores the intersections of socialism and the Social Gospel during the Gilded Age & Progressive Era.
His books are:
"They Are All Red Out Here": Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925
(University of Oklahoma: 2008, Paperback 2023).
The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchists and Terrorism in Progressive Era America
(Routledge: 2018).
Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era
(2 Vols. ABC-Clio: 2017).
[Winner: American Library Association Award for Best Historical Materials, 2018].
Johnson has held visiting fellowships at Harvard, UCLA, and Stanford. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the Center for Western Studies -- and as an Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska.
