Jon Olsen
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Title
Jon Olsen
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Name
Jon Olsen
Last Name
Olsen
Position(s) at CHNM
Making the History of 1989
Left CHNM
2008
Where are they now?
Amherst, Massachusetts
Current Position
Assistant Professor
Website
http://digital.history.umass.edu/jon/
Biographical Text
His dissertation, which he completed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004 and is currently under revision, is titled "Tailoring Truth: Memory Culture and State Legitimacy in East Germany." Professor Olsen teaches courses on German and European history, but also offers courses on digital history, comparative memory, and other areas of public history. Before coming to UMass, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at George Mason University and worked at the Center for History and New Media as the editor of an e-learning Website commemorating the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe.
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“Jon Olsen,” RRCHNM20, accessed April 23, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/107.
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