Carina L. Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor
- With Pitzer Since: 2002
- Field Group: History
- Campus Address: Bernard 221
- Phone: 909.607.3696
Education:
- Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, History, December 2000
- M.A. University of California, Berkeley, History, December 1992
- B.A. Yale College, summa cum laude, Archeological Studies and History, May 1989
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, History, Pitzer College, 2002-present
Extended Faculty, Claremont Graduate University, 2002-present
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, 2000-2002
Courses taught at Pitzer College
- History 21/Anthropology 21 with Professor Segal: The World Since 1492
- History 73: The Sixteenth-Century Problem with Profit
- History 119/Philosophy 119 with Professor Keeley: Medieval Thought
- History 170: Hybrid Identities: Spain, Spanish America, and the Philippines
- History 172: Empire and Sexuality: Gender, Nations, British and French Colonialisms (cross-listed with GFS)
- History 173: Religion, Violence, and Tolerance, 1450-1700
- History 174: Holiness, Heresy, and the Body: Late Antique and Medieval Christianity (cross-listed with GFS)
- History 175: Magic, Heresy, and Gender in the Transatlantic World, 1400-1700 (cross-listed with GFS)
- History 184: Women and Gender, 1300-1650 (cross-listed with GFS)
- FS010: Utopias and Dystopias
Research
Professor Johnson's research is closely related to the courses that she offers. Her current research focuses on cross-cultural encounters, proto-ethnography, and the representation of authority in the sixteenth-century Habsburg Empire. She is also interested in questions of material and visual culture, religious and cultural identities, and theorizing colonialism in the early modern era. In 2004-2005, she was on leave at the John Carter Brown and Huntington Libraries, working on a book manuscript "Categorical Denials: Mexicans, Ottomans, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe."