Academic Education
08/2013 - 12/2016	M.A. Public History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
10/2014 - 07/2015	Austauschstudent Public History MA, Freie Universität Berlin
2010 - 2012	B.A., Germanistik und Geschichte, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2012
Work Experience
since 01/2017	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft (Lehrstuhl Historische Bildungsforschung/Arbeitsstelle für Deutsch-Amerikanische Bildungsgeschichte)
2015 - 2016	Graduate Assistant, National Council on Public History (NCPH), Indianapolis, USA
2013 - 2014	Graduate Intern, IUPUI Institute for American Thought, Indianapolis, USA
06/2014 - 08/2014	Sammlungspraktikant, Museum of the American Cocktail/Southern Food and Beverage Museum, New Orleans, USA
Functions and Memberships
since 08/2013	National Council on Public History
since 08/2013	International Federation for Public History

Scripting Genocide: The Wannsee Conference on Television, 1960–2022 Johnson, Nicholas K. (2025) Berlin: De Gruyter. Type of Publication: Book (monograph)
Shadow Quality TV: HBO’s Complicity and the Failure to Portray Allied Indifference to the Holocaust, 1995–2003 Johnson, Nicholas K. (2024) In: Journal of War & Culture Studies, 17(3) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Review of The Zone of Interest (2023), Directed by Jonathan Glazer Johnson, Nicholas K. (2024) In: Film and History, 54(1) Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Review of Transit, by Christian Petzold Johnson, Nicholas K. (2023) In: Film and History, 53(2) Type of Publication: Review (journal)
“I am a historian as well.” - The West German Reception of 'Die Wannseekonferenz' (1984) and Portraying Holocaust Perpetrators in Public Television Drama Johnson, Nicholas K. (2022) In: VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture, 11(22) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)

Dissertation Prize of the Faculty of Educational and Social Science 2023 Awarded by: University of Münster Award given to: Johnson, Nicholas K. Announced at: 01/12/2023 \| Date of awarding: 12/01/2024 Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
IUPUI Max Kade Graduate Fellow Awarded by: Max Kade Institute Award given to: Johnson, Nicholas Announced at: 01/01/2015 Type of distinction: Scholarship

The Wannsee Conference and Television Docudrama: Holocaust Education and Public History, 1960-2022
Candidate: Johnson, Nicholas | Supervisors: Overhoff, Jürgen Haberski, Raymond James | Reviewers: Overhoff, Jürgen Haberski, Raymond James
Period of time: 01/10/2017 - 21/02/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster