UAH Department of History

Born and raised in Barboursville, West Virginia, Molly studied as an undergraduate at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, where she majored in history and in German. She then completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in German and European history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Molly’s teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and European history, European women's history, methods and historiography, and world history. She has introduced three new courses at UAH, "Historical Methods," required for undergraduate history majors, "Women in Modern European History," a 300-level discussion-based course, and "Nazi Germany and the Holocaust," an undergraduate/graduate seminar. She also gives guest lectures in the Women's Studies and Global Studies interdisciplinary introductory courses at UAH.

During Summer 2006, Molly took UAH history and Global Studies students to Berlin, Germany, as part of a class entitled "Berlin: Crossroads of the Twentieth Century." In Summer 2008, she took a second group of UAH students to Germany for a course on "Munich, Nuremberg, Berlin: Legacies of the Third Reich."

Molly’s first book, Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany, will be published in Fall 2008 by Brill Academic Publishers. This book explores the political, social, and cultural role of sports in communist East Germany. She also traveled to Berlin, Germany, in Summer 2007 and Summer 2008 to conduct research for a new project on alternative culture and new social movements in post-1968 West Germany and reunited Germany.

In her free time, Molly enjoys swimming and biking, knitting, reading novels and mysteries, cooking, and spending time with her husband, Dave, who is Director of Global Studies at UAH, and their "Labradoodle" puppy, Remy.

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