Dr. Molly Johnson Associate Professor, History Modern Europe & Russia Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 216Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.2566molly.johnson@uah.edu Biography 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 Russian history, European women's and gender history, methods and historiography, and world history. She also teaches a course on the modern Olympic Games. Molly’s book Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany (Brill Academic Publishers, 2008) explores the political, social, and cultural role of sports in communist East Germany. Her current research examines athletic mega-events, urban planning, and social protest in the reunification and post-reunification eras in Germany. She has a forthcoming book, co-edited with Heather L. Dichter, entitled Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis (University of Arkansas Press, 2024). When not teaching and researching, Molly enjoys reading, working puzzles, traveling, maintaining her Duolingo streak (currently working on Russian and Latin), and hanging out with her husband Dave, her two children, and her dog. Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., History and German, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign M.A., History and German, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign B.A., History and German, Wittenberg University Expertise 19th and 20th century German, Russian, and European history History of gender and sexuality in Modern Europe History of the Modern Olympic Games Methods and historiography Recent Publications Co-Editor (with Heather L. Dichter) Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming 2024. "The 2015 European Maccabi Games: The Ambiguities of Historical Reconciliation in Berlin." In Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis, edited by Heather L. Dichter and Molly Wilkinson Johnson, 177-197. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming 2024. “The Legacies of 1936: Hitler’s Olympic Grounds and Berlin’s Bid to Host the 2000 Olympic Games.” German History 40, no. 2 (June 2022): 258-277. "Mega-Events, Urban Space, and Social Protest: The Olympia 2000 Bid in Reunified Berlin, 1990-1993" Central European History 52, no. 4 (December 2019): 689-712. Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008.