Eric A. Johnson

Eric A. Johnson is an American historian and social scientist who has written especially on modern Germany, the Holocaust, and the history of crime and violence. Born in Salem, Massachusetts (May 1948) and educated at Brown University (BA), the University of Stockholm (Graduate Diploma), and the University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD), he is currently professor of history at Central Michigan University. He has also held visiting professorships at The Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the University of Cologne, the University of Strathclyde, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. The son of an American physicist, Army Airforce pilot, and prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Hitlerian Germany, he is presently working on a study of downed American and British pilots in WWII Germany and Austria.