SUSAN JOHNSON-ROEHR
117 Temple Hoyne Buell
Hall
611 Lorado Taft Drive, MC-621
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(812) 360-4896
sjohns50@illinois.edu
Ph.D. Program in Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, Advanced to Candidacy May 2008
Dissertation: “Networks of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743”
Major Field: Postcolonial Theory and South Asian Architecture.
Minor Field: Cultural Heritage Management
M.A. History, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1997
Thesis: “HUAC’s Happy Housewives: The Female Witness and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Los Angeles, March 1953”
M.A. Art History, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1994
Thesis: “Sezincote:
The ‘Hindoo’ Aesthetic and British Architecture,
1795-1805”
B.A. Art History, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 1991
Phi Kappa Phi
Outstanding Graduating Senior, Department of Fine Arts
B.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1991
A.A.S. Design Technology, summa cum laude, 2004, Ivy Tech State College, Bloomington, Indiana, 2004
Graduate Teaching Certificate, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois, 2007
Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2006-2007
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Design Technology, Ivy Tech State College, Bloomington, Indiana, 2002-2003
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1995-1997
Research Assistant and Translator, University of Oregon, 1992-1994; 1997-1997
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1992-1994
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1991-1992
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, Western Washington University, Bellingham, 1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Design Assistant, Office of Louis Joyner, Architect, Columbus, Indiana, 2004-2005
Design Consultant, Bloomington Restorations, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana. 2002-2004
RESEARCH
My dissertation analyzes a series of observatories built by the Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Jai Singh II between 1721 and 1743. Constructed in five northern cities (Jaipur, Delhi, Mathura, Varanasi, and Ujjain), the observatories stand at the conjunction of Vedic, Islamic and European science as interpreted and implemented under the patronage of the Maharaja. My dissertation will demonstrate the ways in which Jai Singh’s network of observatories both concretized and historicized landscapes of science as part of a system of control over knowledge, time and space during the second quarter of the eighteenth century.
PUBLICATIONS
“The Archaeological Survey of India and Communal Violence in Post-Independence India,” International Journal of Heritage Studies 2008 14(6): forthcoming.
BOOK REVIEWS
“The Middle Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia 1876-1926,” book review, Material Culture, 2007 39(2): 79-82.
“William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier,” book review, Annals of Wyoming, 2000 72(2): 40-1
“Thomas Moran: The Field Sketches, 1856-1923,” book review, Annals of Wyoming 1997 69(3): 45
PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
“John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis: The Mapping of Imperial Subjectivity at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675-1729,” paper presented at UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Conference “Spaces of the ‘Self’ in Early Modern Culture: Sites of Exteriority,” Los Angeles, California, December 2007
“Marking Mughal Time: Power and Politics at the Delhi Astronomical Observatory of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743,” paper presented at History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2007
“Jantar Mantar: The Disappearing Observatories of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II,” paper presented at 36th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2007
“Vāstu Vidyā: Vedic Architectural Theory in Postmodern India,” paper presented at Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians Annual Student Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2007
"Sezincote: The Nabob at Home, 1795-1820," paper presented at Northwest Conference on British Studies, Portland, Oregon, October 1996
Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois, 2008
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2008-2009
Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008-2009
Alan K. and Leonarda F. Laing Memorial Scholarship Award, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, 2008
Graduate College Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois, 2008
National Science Foundation Travel Grant, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November, 2007
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois, Summer 2007, AY 2007-2008
Natalie Alpert Prize, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, for paper “Marking Time: Power and Politics at the Astronomical Observatory of Sawai Jai Singh II, 1721-1743,” 2007
Girdhari Tikku Memorial Prize, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, for paper “Archaeological Survey of India and Communal Violence in Post-Independence India,” 2007
Critical Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, 2006
Gargoyle Architecture Honor Society, University of Illinois Chapter, 2006
Graduate College Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois, 2006
Alan K. and Leonarda F. Laing Memorial Fellowship in Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, 2005-2007
Chancellor's Fellowship, Indiana University, 1997
Victorian Society of America Summer School Grant, 1997
Theodora Bosanquet Bursary (Travel/Research Grant), 1996
Departmental Travel/Research Award, Department of History, University of Oregon, 1996
Departmental Travel/Research Award, Department of Art History, University of Oregon, 1994