{"id":1361,"date":"2024-07-02T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/?post_type=profile&p=1361"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:14:48","slug":"james-h-johnson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/profile\/james-h-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"James H. Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Johnson is a cultural historian who writes and teaches on modern and early modern Europe.\u00a0 His research includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, the history of Venice, and music history.\u00a0 His book Listening in Paris: A Cultural History<\/i> received the American Historical Association<\/i>\u2019s 1995 Herbert Baxter Adams Award and the American Philosophical Society<\/i>\u2019s Jacques Barzun Prize.\u00a0<\/span>His current work is on identity, concealment, and the self in modern and early modern Europe.\u00a0 His book Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic<\/i>, received the American Historical Association<\/i>\u2019s 2011 George L. Mosse Award and Oscar Kenshur Book Prize.\u00a0 <\/span>His book Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light <\/i>will appear in December, 2024 with University of Chicago Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Johnson is the recipient of numerous research fellowships, including grants from the Fulbright Scholar Program and the American Council of Learned Societies.\u00a0 In 2014-15, he was a Guggenheim Fellow.\u00a0 For six years, he was Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Director of its Core Curriculum.\u00a0 Between 1999 and 2002, he served as N.E.H. Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Johnson has taught an array of courses at Boston University, including the Humanities and Social Science sequences in the university\u2019s Core Curriculum, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-European Intellectual History, Nineteenth-Century France, and the History of Boston.\u00a0 His seminars include Music and Ideas, the Culture of World War I, and Postwar European Culture.\u00a0 He has designed and taught summer courses in Venice and Paris.\u00a0 In 1996, he received Boston University\u2019s highest teaching award, the Metcalf Prize.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Johnson is an active pianist who gives regular lecture \/ performances on music in its cultural context.\u00a0 Among his recent programs are \u201cBeethoven and the Art of Infinite Yearning,\u201d \u201cChopin\u2019s Legacy: The Preludes, Mazurkas, and Nocturnes,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cRavel in the Fin de Si\u00e8cle.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 He lives in Freeport, Maine with his wife Lydia Moland, who teaches philosophy at Colby College.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1361\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}