Lesley Ruth Johnson AM FAHA (born 1949) is an Australian cultural historian, whose research has focused on gender studies and the sociology of education.
[3] Johnson won a Commonwealth Postgraduate Award that allowed her to complete a PhD (1976) at Monash University with her thesis, The concept of culture and the English intellectual, 1850–1975.
She then jointly filled the positions of professor of cultural studies and pro vice chancellor for research at the University of Technology, Sydney from 1995 to 2004.
[5] She published "Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife"[6][7] and moved to Queensland in 2004 as deputy vice chancellor (research) at Griffith University, remaining there until she retired in 2009.
[9] She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to education as a leading academic, administrator and author, particularly in the fields of cultural history and feminist studies, and through the establishment of research centres for a range of disciplines".