Johnston, Carolyn Ross

PERSONAL:

Female. Education: Samford University, B.A., 1970; University of California, Berkeley, M.A., 1971, Ph.D., 1976.

ADDRESSES:

Home—1322 62nd Pl. S., St. Petersburg, FL 22705. E-mail—crossjohn@aol.com.

CAREER:

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, instructor, 1976-78; Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, assistant professor, 1978-83, associate professor, 1983-88, professor of American studies and history, 1988—, director of women's and gender studies program, 1990-2004.

MEMBER:

American Association of University Professors (past state president; local president, 2003- 04).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1970- 71; Danforth fellow, 1970-74, associate, 1983—; DuBois fellow at Harvard University, 1983-84, 1989- 90; Robert A. Staub Award for excellence in teaching, 1991; Pulitzer Prize nomination, 1992, for Sexual Power: Feminism and the Family in America; fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993.

WRITINGS:

Jack London: An American Radical?, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1984.

Sexual Power: Feminism and the Family in America, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL), 1992.

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Gender in Academe, edited by Sara Dietz, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1994. Contributor to periodicals, including Chronicles of Oklahoma, Journal of Cherokee Studies, Journal of Women's History, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Western American Literature, and California Historical Quarterly.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of Southern History, May, 2005, Katherine M.B. Osburn, review of Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907, p. 440.

Kliatt, May, 2004, Edna Boardman, review of Cherokee Women in Crisis, p. 38.