Benjamin H. Johnson

Benjamin H. Johnson is Professor in the History Department and School of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago.  He attended Carleton College (B.A., summa cum laude) and Yale University (PhD).  Johnson is the author of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (2003); Bordertown:  The Odyssey of an American Place (Yale University Press, 2008), and one book and numerous articles about the history of environmental politics in the United States.  In 2012, Johnson helped to found the“Refusing to Forget” Project, which commemorates the legacies of the border violence of the 1910s. This project received the 2020 Herbert Feis award from the American Historical Association for “distinguished contributions” to public history in the last decade.  He is currently writing a history of Texas and researching a history of Latino politics.