User:Ken Johnson

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Image:JohnsonGKenneth2001.jpg Graduate of Florida State University. (MA - 2003, PhD - 2006) Member of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution.

Kenneth Johnson was born in Southern California. He received his BA in History from California State University, Northridge in 2001. He presented a paper on French Admiral Latouche Tréville at the Society for Military History Conference in Calgary, Canada, in 2001. After earning his MA from Florida State University in 2003, he completed his PhD at Florida State University in 2006. He is currently in France undertaking postdoctoral research.

His field of study is the French Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He is currently working on improving his dissertation, a biography of Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, for publication. He held a Ben Weider Fellowship in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. In the summer of 2003, he researched in the various archives across France. He has presented several papers on the French naval history at the 33rd, 34th and 35th meetings of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. In March 2008, he will present a paper on French maritime strategy from 1793-4 at the 2008 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.

Research Interest

  • French Maritime History
  • French Colonial History
  • French Revolution
  • Napoleonic Era