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American author and historian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victoria Johnson (born 1969) is an American author and historian. She is a Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College.[1]
Victoria Johnson | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History finalist National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A., 1991, Philosophy, Yale University Humboldt-Universität PhD., 2002, Sociology, Columbia University |
| Thesis | Founding Culture: Art, Politics, and Organization at the Paris Opera, 1669-1792” (2002) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Michigan Hunter College |
| Notable works | American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic |
Johnson was born and raised in Ithaca, New York.[2] She attended Yale University for her Bachelor of Arts degree and Columbia University for a PhD in Sociology.[3] Her sister, Elizabeth Kostova, is also an author.[4]
After earning her PhD, Johnson taught at the University of Michigan.[3] While there, she published "Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime" through the University of Chicago Press.[5] She was promoted from assistant to Associate Professor of Organizational Studies in 2011.[6] Johnson eventually left the University of Michigan to join the faculty of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College.[7] During the 2015–16 academic term, she was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.[8]
Johnson was a Mellon Visiting Scholar at The New York Botanical Garden’s Humanities Institute in 2016, where she conducted research on David Hosack.[9] After her first proposal was rejected for being "too academic,"[10] she published a biography of David Hosack in 2018 titled "American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic."[11] Her book was subsequently nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction,[12] Pulitzer Prize for History,[13][14] and LA Times Book Prize.[15] The following year, she received the 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize[16] and was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.[17]
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