J. Otto Pohl
Jonathan Otto Pohl is an American historian who formerly worked for the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, University of Ghana, and American University of Central Asia. His PhD in History is from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Education and career
Pohl is American, and was born in 1970. Pohl received a BA in history from Grinnell College. He received a Masters degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and went on to receive a PhD from the same institution.He previously taught at the American University of Central Asia, University of Ghana, and the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani.
Works
Pohl has written three books; his works are primarily focused on ethnic cleansing in the Soviet Union. His first, The Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror 1930-1953, was published in 1997 by McFarland. His second book, Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949, was published by Greenwood Press in 1999. Pohl's third book, The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the USSR, 1941–1955, was published in 2022 by ibidem Verlag.He contributed a chapter to the 2008 edited volume Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia, about Soviet deportations. He also contributed a chapter to the 2016 book Kwame Nkrumah, 1909-1972: A Controversial Visionary by Bea Lundt and Christopher Marx, about Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah. His chapter focuses on the coup against Nkrumah, and the CIA's role.