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Nick Johnson, M.A.

Current affiliations

  • Professur für Historische Bildungsforschung (Prof. Overhoff)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Public History
  • Film and History
  • Urban History
  • Germany in the 20th Century
  • Memory Studies

Academic Education

08/2013 - 12/2016M.A. Public History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
10/2014 - 07/2015Austauschstudent Public History MA, Freie Universität Berlin
2010 - 2012B.A., Germanistik und Geschichte, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 2012

Work Experience

since 01/2017Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft (Lehrstuhl Historische Bildungsforschung/Arbeitsstelle für Deutsch-Amerikanische Bildungsgeschichte)
2015 - 2016Graduate Assistant, National Council on Public History (NCPH), Indianapolis, USA
2013 - 2014Graduate Intern, IUPUI Institute for American Thought, Indianapolis, USA
06/2014 - 08/2014Sammlungspraktikant, Museum of the American Cocktail/Southern Food and Beverage Museum, New Orleans, USA

Functions and Memberships

since 08/2013National Council on Public History
since 08/2013International Federation for Public History

Publications

Scripting Genocide: The Wannsee Conference on Television, 1960–2022
Johnson, Nicholas K. (2025)
Berlin: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111579450
Book (monograph) | Published
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), 269-291. doi:10.1080/17526272.2024.2360291
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Review of The Zone of Interest (2023), Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Johnson, Nicholas K. (2024)
In: Film and History, 54(1), 102-104. doi:10.1353/flm.2024.a933233.
Review (journal) | Published
Review of Transit, by Christian Petzold
Johnson, Nicholas K. (2023)
In: Film and History, 53(2), 51-52. doi:10.1353/flm.2023.a915287
Review (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
“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). doi:10.18146/view.283
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
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Talks

Trenches in Los Angeles, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back, and how the American and German Film Industries Depicted World War I during the 1930s
Johnson, Nicholas (20/04/2018)
Society for German-American Studies 42nd Annual Symposium, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Type of talk: scientific talk

Prizes

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

Doctorates

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