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Andrea Johnson holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Missouri. She teaches classes on the histories of California, American immigration, civil rights and recent US history topics. Her research fields include the history of religion and social activism in the 20th century United States. She has published several journal articles as well as pieces of public scholarship through the Washington Post, the Tennessean and the History News Network. She has served as the co-chair of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements unit in the American Academy of Religion, and the History Interest Group leader for the Society for Pentecostal Studies. She has received the Faculty Legacy Research Award at CSUDH and was recently awarded the John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Award from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
Specialties:
Twentieth-Century United States Religion and Social Justice
Courses Taught:
History 101: History of the United States
History 300: Theory and Practice of History
History 334: United States History, Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1917
History 335: United States History, War and Depression, 1914-1945
History 336: United States History, United States Recent Period, 1945-Present
History 341: California History
History 354: History of American Immigration
History 355: Civil Rights History
History 376: Film as History
History 380: Women’s History
History 400: Proseminar (Historiography)
History 490: Senior Seminar in History