Experts & Speakers Faculty Profile
Owen V. Johnson
Associate Professor of Journalism, School of Journalism
IU Bloomington
Associate Professor of Journalism, Adjunct Associate Professor of History
Adjunct Associate Professor of History, History Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Interests:
Czech Republic, Russian, former Soviet Union, Poland and European history and mediaEducation:
- B.A. at Washington State University, 1968
- M.A. at University of Michigan, 1970
- Ph.D. at University of Michigan, 1978
Background:
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Served as director of IU's Russian & East European Institute, 1991-95. Johnson is one of the most knowledgeable people in the United States on Russian and East European mass media. He is author of "Slovakia 1918-1938: Education and the Making of a Nation," and many articles on Czech and Slovak history and a frequent traveler to East Central Europe, especially to Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.
