Dr. Alison Johnson

Biography

Alison Frank Johnson is a Professor at Harvard University, focusing on the history of German-speaking Europe and the Habsburg Monarchy. Her notable book, 'Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia' was published in 2005 and has won multiple awards including the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize and the Austrian Cultural Forum Book Prize in 2006. She is currently researching the de-memorialization of alleged ritual murder sites in Germany and Austria during the postwar period, particularly examining popular religiosity and longstanding prejudices against Jews, working to combat both literal and symbolic relics from history. Johnson’s additional research interests encompass environmental history, capital punishment, the Alps, and the Mediterranean slave trade. She teaches courses covering a broad range of topics within European Environmental History and has published extensively in both academic journals and monographs.

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