Hi, I'm Molly Cowan-Johnson. I teach outside of Kansas City on the Kansas side. I teach, this year, AP World History, Modern World history, Sociology, and World Geography. Outside of school I'm a bagpiper and an avid traveler, covid put a damper on my globe-trotting plans for a couple years. I travel with students. I took a group to Japan in 2018 and a group to Peru in 2019. We have another trip planned to Japan next summer. My husband's name is Clay, he's a professional bass player and we have two corgis and a basset hound. 

This is my 2nd USC US-China institute seminar. I took the East Asia: Origins to 1800 last spring and now I'm back for more. My specialty in undergrad was British history and there wasn't a lot of other options besides US history so my goal taking these seminars is to learn a more comprehensive history about East Asia. I've read a lot primarily about Japan and the Mongols. I really enjoyed learning more about Korea in the last seminar. I look forward to learning more in this seminar.