Chair, Assistant Professor

E-Mail: daniel.johnson@bilkent.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (312) 290 1646
Office: G-119

Full CV

Daniel Johnson is a historian of early America and the early modern Atlantic world. He received his Ph.D. in History from Binghamton University-SUNY in 2011.

Dr. Johnson’s research explores the relationship between social change and cultural formation in the Atlantic world between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He is particularly interested in the ways ordinary people experienced and shaped the English colonial project in the Americas. Johnson’s first book, Making the Early Modern Metropolis: Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia (UVA), examines power struggles in early Philadelphia within a broader context of urban transformation beginning in late medieval Europe and extending to the early modern Atlantic world. Johnson’s academic articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the journals Social History, Early American Studies, Cultural and Social History, Pennsylvania History, and the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. He is also editor of Chapter 3 of the textbook The American Yawp, and his teaching and research interests include labor, popular politics, social movements, theories of knowledge, urban history, crime, print culture, and early American literature.

Johnson is also author of many essays and reviews for general publications. He is a frequent contributor to Against the Current and New Politics, and his writings have appeared in History Today, Jacobin, Tempest, EAS Miscellany, The Bullet, Monthly Review, and the Social History Blog.

In addition to working on two new book projects, Dan enjoys spending time with his family, making music, and hanging out with his cats.