DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE

Faculty

Education

Ph.D., American History
University of North Texas
Dissertation title:  “Peculiar Honor:  A History of the 28th Texas Cavalry (dismounted), Walker’s Texas Division, 1862-1865.”
1993

M.S., Library Science
University of North Texas
1987

B.A., History
Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK
1985

Teaching Experience

2006-present, Associate Professor
Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Courses: Research and Writing for Historians, Readings in Military Leadership,and Revolutionary America.

2001-2006, Assistant Professor
Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Co-editor of the Papers of Will Rogers Project. Courses taught: American History to 1877, American History from 1877, American Federal Government, Oklahoma History (2063) as a directed studies course during the spring 2003 semester. (The topic taught was "The Civil War in the Indian Territory."), Revolutionary America, 1763-1783.

2000-2001, Adjunct Instructor
Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Courses taught: U. S. History to 1865, U. S. History from 1865.

1997-2000, Adjunct Instructor
Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK
Courses taught: U. S. History to 1876, U. S. History from 1876, America in Perspective:  The Civil War (graduate level), The American. Experience:  The Civil War (graduate level), The American Experience:  The Revolutionary Era (graduate level).

1994-1997, Adjunct Instructor
Rogers University at Pryor, OK
Courses taught: U. S. History to 1865, U. S. History from 1865.

1993-1994, Adjunct Instructor
Tarrant County Junior College
Courses taught: U. S. History to 1876, U. S. History from 1876.

1988-1991, Teaching Fellow
University of North Texas
Courses taught: U. S. History to 1865.

Conferences

• "Gibson's Louisiana Brigade during the Nashville Campaign," Battle of Nashville Symposium, Nashville, TN, December 2004.
• “‘This is a time for brave hearts’:  Theophilus Perry of Walker’s Division,” Texas State Historical Association, Houston, TX, March 2001.

Honors

• Who’s Who in American Education (2005)
• Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2004)
• Ottis Lock Endowment Award for Best Book of the Year on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association (1999)
• Who’s Who of American Women (1998)
• Arts and Sciences Dean’s Dissertation Award for Research Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences, University of North Texas (1994)
• Hatton B. Sumner Dissertation Fellowship, University of North Texas (1991-1992)

Publications

Gragert, Stephen K. and M. Jane Johansson, eds. The Papers of Will Rogers: The Final Years, August 1928-August 1935. Vol. 5. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.

Johansson, M. Jane. “Gibson’s Louisiana Brigade During the 1864 Tennessee Campaign.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 64 (Fall 2005): 186-195.

Gragert, Stephen K. and M. Jane Johansson, eds. The Papers of Will Rogers: From Broadway to the National Stage, September 1915-July 1928. Vol. 4. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

Widows by the Thousand:  The Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864.   Fayetteville:  University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

Peculiar Honor:  A  History of the 28th Texas Cavalry, 1862-1865. Fayetteville:  University of Arkansas Press, 1998.

Johansson, Jane Harris and David H. Johansson.  “Two ‘Lost’ Battle Reports:  Horace Randal’s and Joseph L. Brent’s Reports of the Battles of  Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, 8 and 9 April 1864.”  Military History of the West 23 (Fall 1993): 169-180.

Book Reviews

Chimborazo: The Confederacy’s Largest Hospital, by Carol C. Green. Tennessee Historical Quarterly, v. 64 (Fall 2005): 252-253.

In the Saddle with the Texans: Day-by-Day with Parsons’s Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865. edited by Anne J. Bailey. See review at H-NET CIV-WAR.

Keep All My Letters: The Civil War Letters of Richard Henry Brooks, 51st Georgia Infantry, edited by Katherine Holland and A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, A Confederate Soldier from Maine, edited by Roger S. Durham. Georgia Historical Quarterly, v. 89 (Spring 2005): 122-124.

One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864, by Gary Dillard Joiner. Military History of the West, v. 33 (2003): 47-48

Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth by Stephen D. Engle. Historians of the Civil War Western Theater online journal. See review at www.hcwwt.org/Journal3/Reviews/Struggle.htm

Rutherford B. Hayes:  “One of the Good Colonels,” by Ari Hoogenboom.  Military History of the West 31, No. 1 (Spring 2001): 78-79.

This Grand Spectacle:  The Battle of Chattanooga, by Steven Woodworth.  Military History of the West 31, No. 1 (Spring 2001): 74-75.

Six Armies in Tennessee:  The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, by Steven E. Woodworth. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103 (January 2000):  386-387.

More Generals  in Gray, by Bruce Allardice.  Civil War Regiments:  A Journal of the American Civil War 5, no. 1:  163-165.

April ‘65:  Confederate Covert Action in the Civil War by William A.     Tidwell. Civil War Regiments:  A Journal of the American Civil War 5, no. 1: 168-170.

With Grant & Meade:  From the Wilderness to Appomattox by Theodore Lyman. Civil War Regiments:  A Journal of the American Civil War 4, no. 2:  139-140.

Presentations

Presentation titled “’A position in this regiment will be one of peculiar honor’: The 28th Texas Cavalry and Its Men” given at the Houston Civil War Round Table on November 16, 2006

“Let’s Talk About It” scholar, Oklahoma Humanities Council (2000)

Presentation given in April 2001 about Louisa May Alcott’s, Little Women, at the Schusterman-Benson Library (Tulsa)

Presentation given in October 2001 about Larry McMurtry’s, Lonesome Dove at the Hulbert Public Library

Presentation given in March 2002 about Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Presentation given in October 2002 about Marilyn Harris's, Hatter Fox at the Hulbert Public Library

Presentation given in November 2003 about Jack Schaefer's, Monte Walsh, at the Bartlesville Public Library.

Other

• Humanities chairperson, Pryor Area Arts and Humanities Council (1995-2001)
• Administered an annual $3,000 Local Affiliates grant awarded by the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
• Board member, Pryor Area Arts and Humanities Council (1994-2001)
• Community speaker, (1994)
• Various programs given for Friends of the Library (Pryor), Lion’s Club (Pryor), Mayes County Writing Club, PEO (Pryor, Shawnee, and Tahlequah), Presbyterian Women (Pryor), Rotary Club (Pryor), Tulsa Civil War Round Table, United Daughters of the Confederacy (Tulsa) and United Methodist Women (Pryor).