JOAN MARIE JOHNSON (Ph.D., UCLA 1997) teaches
American Women’s history and Southern history.
She is the author of Southern
Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism,
1875-1915 (University of Georgia Press, 2008), Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region and Clubwomen in South
Carolina, 1898-1930 (University Press of Florida, 2004), and the editor and
author of the introduction to Southern
Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916 (University of
South Carolina Press, 2002). She has
published articles on Southern women, race, reform, and education, and is
currently co-editing a three volume historical anthology on South Carolina women,
the first volume of which was published in June 2009, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, volume I. Johnson is the co-founder and co-director of
the Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender at the Newberry Library in
