Staff

Temporary Affiliates

The "major publications" entries were limited to three entries per person for reasons of space. The publications listed were selected by the researchers.

Directors

Hartmut Lehmann

1987-93; Dr. phil., University of Vienna, 1959; Habilitation, University of Cologne, 1967.
Previous position: Professor, University of Kiel.
Current position: Director, Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen.
Major publications:Pietismus und weltliche Ordnung in Württemberg vom 17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart, 1969. Martin Luther in the American Imagination. Munich, 1988. Alte und Neue Welt in wechselseitiger Sicht: Studien zu den transatlantischen Beziehungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen, 1995.
Memberships: Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Full Member, Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
Main project at GHI: Founding director, GHI Washington.

Detlef Junker

1994-Present; Dr. phil., University of Kiel, 1967; Habilitation, University of Stuttgart, 1974.
Previous position: Professor, University of Heidelberg.
Current position: Director, GHI Washington.
Major publications:Die Deutsche Zentrumspartei und Hitler 1932/33: Ein Beitrag zur Problematik des politischen Katholizismus in Deutschland. Stuttgart, 1969. Der unteilbare Weltmarkt: Das ökonomische Interesse in der Aussenpolitik der USA 1933-1941. Stuttgart, 1975. Von der Weltmacht zur Supermacht: Amerikanische Aussenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert. Mannheim, 1995
Main projects at GHI: The United States and Germany in the Age of the Cold War, 1945-1990; initiator and co-founder, German-American Center for Visiting Scholars.

Acting Directors

Hermann-Josef Rupieper

1987; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974; Habilitation, Free University of Berlin, 1981.
Previous position: Associate Professor, Free University of Berlin.
Current position: Professor, University of Halle.
Major publications:Arbeiter und Angestellte im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung: Eine sozialgeschichtlichte Studie am Beispiel der Maschinenfabriken Augsburg und Nürnberg (M.A.N.) 1837-1914. Frankfurt am Main, 1982. Der besetzte Verbündete: Die amerikanische Deutschlandpolitik 1949-1955. Opladen, 1990. Die Wurzeln der westdeutschen Nachkriegsdemokratie: Der Amerikanische Beitrag 1945-1952. Opladen, 1993.
Main project at GHI: American influences on the establishment of West Germany.

Hartmut Keil

1993-94 (Deputy Director, 1992-93); Dr. phil., University of Munich, 1969; Habilitation, University of Munich, 1986.
Previous position: Associate Professor, University of Munich
Current position: Professor, University of Leipzig.
Major publications: Co-editor: German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill., 1983. German Workers' Culture in the United States, 1850 to 1920. Washington, D.C., 1988. Co-editor: German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I. Urbana, 1988.
Main project at GHI: Labor migration and workers' culture.

Deputy Directors

Norbert Finzsch

1990-92; Dr. phil, University of Cologne, 1980; Habilitation, University of Cologne, 1988.
Previous position: Associate Professor, University of Cologne.
Current position: Professor, University of Hamburg.
Major publications:Die Goldgräber Kaliforniens: Arbeitsbedingungen, Lebensstandard und politisches System um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Göttingen, 1982. Obrigkeit und Unterschichten: Zur Geschichte der rheinischen Unterschichten gegen Ende des 18. und zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart, 1990. Co-author: Different Restorations: Reconstruction and "Wiederaufbau" in the United States and Germany, 1865-1945-1989. Providence, R.I., 1996.
Main project at GHI: History of the American prison system, 1776-1860.

Martin H. Geyer

1995-97; Dr. phil., University of Munich, 1987; Habilitation, University of Cologne, 1994.
Previous position: Associate Professor, University of Cologne.
Current position: Professor, University of Munich.
Major publications:Die Reichsknappschaft: Versicherungsformen und Sozialpolitik im Bergbau 1900-1945. Munich, 1987. Verkehrte Welt: Weltkrieg, Revolution und Inflation in München 1914-1924. Göttingen, 1998.
Main project at GHI: The politics of space, time, and money, 1850-1914; social planning for the postwar period in Europe and the United States, 1940-45.

Christof Mauch

1998-Present; Dr. phil., University of Tübingen, 1990; Habilitation, University of Cologne, 1998.
Previous position: DFG Habilitation Fellow
Current position: Deputy Director, GHI Washington.
Major publications: Co-author: Für eine Welt ohne Krieg: Otto Unfrid und die Anfänge der Friedensbewegung. Schönaich, 1987. Poesie-Theologie-Politik: Studien zu Kurt Marti. Tübingen, 1992. Co-editor: American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler: A Documentary History. Boulder, Colo., 1995 (2d ed., 1998).
Main project at GHI: American environmental history.

Research Fellows

Peter Becker

1993-97; Dr. phil, University of Graz, 1988.
Previous position: Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen.
Current position: Professor, European University Institute, Florence.
Major publications:Leben, Lieben, Sterben: Die Analyse von Kirchenbüchern. St. Katharinen, 1989. Leben und Lieben in einem kalten Land: Sexualität zwischen Ökonomie und Demographie: Das Beispiel St. Lamprecht, Steiermark 1600-1850. Frankfurt am Main, 1990. Co-editor: Akten, Eingaben, Schaufenster: Die DDR und ihre Texte: Erkundungen zu Herrschaft und Alltag. Berlin, 1996.
Main project at GHI: The image of the criminal in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Manfred Berg

1992-97; Dr. phil., University of Heidelberg, 1988; Habilitation, Free University of Berlin, 1998.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, Free University of Berlin.
Current position: Adjunct Professor, Free University of Berlin.
Major publications:Gustav Stresemann und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika: Weltwirtschaftliche Verflechtung und Revisionspolitik 1907-1929. Baden-Baden, 1990. Gustav Stresemann: Eine politische Karriere. Göttingen, 1992.
Main project at GHI: The NAACP and the struggle for voting rights, 1909-70.

Andreas W. Daum

1996-Present; Dr. phil., University of Munich, 1995.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, University of Munich.
Current position: Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications:Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit 1848-1914. Munich, 1998.
Main project at GHI: Berlin and the Cold War in American culture, society, and politics, 1945-63.

Catherine Epstein

1987-90; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998.
Previous position: Student.
Current Position: Lecturer, Stanford University.
Major publications: Editor: A Past Renewed: A Catalog of German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933. New York, 1993.
Main project at GHI: Refugee historians.

Stig Förster

1989-92; Dr. phil., University of Düsseldorf, 1982; Habilitation, University of Düsseldorf, 1991.
Previous position: Research Fellow, GHI London.
Current position: Professor, University of Bern.
Major publications:Der doppelte Militarismus: Die deutsche Heeresrüstungspolitik zwischen Status-Quo-Sicherung und Aggression 1890-1913. Stuttgart, 1985. Die mächtigen Diener der East India Company: Ursachen und Hintergründe der britischen Expansionspolitik in Südasien 1793-1819. Stuttgart, 1992. Co-editor: On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. New York, 1997.
Main project at GHI: Imperialism and slavery, 1812-60.

Axel Frohn

1987-92; Dr. phil., University of Cologne, 1983.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, University of Bonn.
Current position: Historian and Journalist, Washington, D.C.
Major publications:Neutralisierung als Alternative zur Westintegration: Die Deutschlandpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1945-1949. Frankfurt am Main, 1985. Co-editor: Genoa, Rapallo, and European Reconstruction in 1922. New York, 1991. Co-editor: American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955. New York, 1993.
Main project at GHI: Nuclear sharing and nuclear control.

Eckhardt Fuchs

1996-Present; Dr. phil., University of Leipzig, 1992.
Previous position: Coordinator of Graduate Seminar on American Democracy, Free University of Berlin.
Current position: Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications:Thomas Henry Buckle: Geschichtsschreibung und Positivismus in England und Deutschland. Leipzig, 1994. Co-author: "J'accuse": Zur Affäre Dreyfus. Mainz, 1994.
Main project at GHI: International scientific cooperation, 1870-1920.

Philipp Gassert

1994-Present; Dr. phil., University of Heidelberg, 1996.
Previous position: Research Assistant, University of Heidelberg.
Current position: Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications:Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung 1933-1945. Stuttgart, 1997. Co-editor: 1968: The World Transformed. New York, 1998.
Main project at GHI: Biography of Kurt Georg Kiesinger.

Elisabeth Glaser(-Schmidt)

1991-96; Dr. phil., University of Cologne, 1984.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne.
Current position: DFG Habilitation Fellow.
Major publications:"Die Philippinen den Filipinos!" Die amerikanische Debatte über die Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungspolitik auf den Philippinen 1898-1906. Frankfurt am Main, 1986. Co-editor: Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America Since 1776. New York, 1997. Co-editor: The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years. New York, 1998.
Main Project at GHI: German-American business and political relations and the world trading system, 1921-33.

Thomas Goebel

1997-Present; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993.
Previous position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University of Berlin.
Current position: Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications:The Children of Athena: Chicago Professionals and the Creation of a Credentialed Society, 1870-1920. Münster, 1996.
Main project at GHI: Direct democracy in the United States.

Jürgen Heideking

1988-90; Dr. phil., University of Tübingen, 1979; Habilitation, University of Tübingen, 1987.
Previous position: Professor, University of Tübingen.
Current position: Professor, University of Cologne.
Major publications:Areopag der Diplomaten: Die Pariser Botschafterkonferenz der allliierten Hauptmächte und die Probleme der europäischen Politik 1920-1931. Husum, 1979. Die Verfassung vor dem Richterstuhl: Vorgeschichte und Ratifizierung der amerikanischen Verfassung 1787-1791. Berlin, 1988. Geschichte der USA. Tübingen, 1996.
Main project at GHI: The Office of Strategic Services and the German resistance to Hitler.

Matthias Judt

1992-95; Dr. phil., Humboldt University, Berlin, 1989.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, University of Hannover.
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Halle.
Major publications: Co-editor: Technology Transfer Out of Germany After 1945. Amsterdam, 1996.
Main project at GHI: Technology transfer since World War II.

Raimund Lammersdorf

1997-Present; Dr. phil., Free University of Berlin, 1992.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, Technical University of Chemnitz-Zwickau.
Current position: Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications:Anfänge einer Weltmacht: Theodore Roosevelt und die transatlantischen Beziehungen der USA 1901-1901. Berlin, 1994.
Main project at GHI: Westernization of West Germany.

Wilfried Mausbach

1995-Present; Dr. phil., University of Cologne, 1994.
Previous position: Lecturer, Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Current position: Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications:Zwischen Morgenthau und Marshall: Das wirtschaftspolitische Deutschlandkonzept der USA 1944-1947. Düsseldorf, 1996.
Main project at GHI: The West German student movement and the Vietnam War.

Jörg Nagler

1987-92; Dr. phil., University of Kiel, 1984; Habilitation, University of Kiel, 1997.
Previous position: Cultural Affairs Specialist, American Embassy, Bonn.
Current position: Professor, University of Jena.
Major publications:Frémont contra Lincoln: Die deutsch-amerikanische Opposition in der Republikanischen Partei während des amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges. Frankfurt am Main, 1984. Co-editor: Emigration and Settlement Patterns of German Communities in North America. Indianapolis, 1995. Co-editor: On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. New York, 1997. Main project at GHI: Immigrants and the U.S. home front in World War I.

Sibylle Quack

1989-92; Dr. phil., University of Hannover, 1982; Habilitation, University of Hannover, 1993.
Previous position: Research Fellow, Federal Press and Information Office, Bonn.
Current positions: Research Fellow, Federal Press and Information Office, Bonn; Visiting Professor, University of Bremen.
Major publications:Geistig frei und niemandes Knecht: Paul Levi, Rosa Luxemburg - politische Arbeit und persönliche Beziehung. Cologne, 1983. Zuflucht Amerika: Zur Sozialgeschichte der Emigration jüdischer Frauen in die USA 1933-1945. Bonn, 1995. Editor: Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period. New York, 1996.
Main project at GHI: Jewish women refugees in the United States.

Dietmar Schirmer

1992-95; Dr. phil., Free University of Berlin, 1990.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, Free University of Berlin.
Current position: DAAD Professor, Cornell University.
Major publications:Mythos-Heilshoffnung-Modernität: Politisch-kulturelle Deutungscodes in der Weimarer Republik. Opladen, 1992.
Main project at GHI: Urban planning and its symbolism.

Hanna Schissler

1988-92; Dr. phil., University of Bielefeld, 1977; Habilitation, University of Hannover, 1997.
Previous position: Research Fellow, Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig.
Current position: Adjunct Professor, University of Hannover; Research Fellow, Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig.
Major publications:Preussische Agrargesellschaft im Wandel: Wirtschaftliche, gesellschaftliche und politische Transformationsprozesse von 1763 bis 1847. Göttingen, 1978. Schulbuchverbesserung durch internationale Schulbuchforschung? Probleme der Vermittlung zwischen Schulbuchkritik und Geschichtsbuch am Beispiel der englischen Geschichte. Braunschweig, 1985. Editor: Geschlechterverhältnisse im historischen Wandel. Frankfurt am Main, 1993.
Main project at GHI: Gender and the restructuring of West German society, 1945-55.

Ulrike Skorsetz

1992-96; Dr. phil., University of Jena, 1989.
Previous position: Assistant Professor, University of Jena.
Current position: Employed in private business.
Major publications:Die aussenpolitischen Beziehungen zwischen den USA und Grossbritannien in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Jena, 1989. Co-author: Die Präsidenten der USA in Lebensbildern: Von George Washington bis Bill Clinton.Graz, 1993. Essays on Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield in Jürgen Heideking, ed., Die Amerikanischen Präsidenten: 41 historische Portraits von George Washington bis Bill Clinton. Munich, 1995.
Main project at GHI: German immigrants from Thuringia in Texas and Missouri.

Edmund Spevack

1997-Present; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1992.
Previous position: VW Fellow, GHI Washington.
Current position: Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications:Charles Follen's Search For Nationality and Freedom: Germany and America, 1796-1840. Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Main project at GHI: American influences on the West German Basic Law.

Susan Strasser

1993-95; Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1977.
Previous position: Associate Professor, Departments of History and American Civilization, George Washington University.
Current position: Visiting Professor of Cultural History, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York.
Major publications:Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York, 1982. Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market. New York, 1989 (2d edition, 1995). Waste and Want: Household Trash and Amercian Consumer Culture. New York, forthcoming.
Main project at GHI: Household recycling in the United States.

Carola Wessel

1990-93; Ph.D., University of Göttingen, 1997.
Previous position: Research Assistant, University of Göttingen. Current position: Research Fellow, Center for Pietistic Studies, Halle.
Major publications: Co-editor: Herrnhuter Indianermission in der amerikanischen Revolution: Die Tagebücher von David Zeisberger 1772-1781. Berlin, 1995. Delaware-Indianer und Herrnhuter Missionare im Upper Ohio Valley 1772-1781. Tübingen, forthcoming.
Main project at GHI: Herrnhut missionaries and Native Americans.

Editors

Manfred F. Boemeke

1991-96; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1983.
Previous position: Editor and Lecturer, Princeton University.
Current position: Editor, United Nations University Press, Tokyo.
Major publications: Assistant to editor, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vols. 42-68. Princeton, N.J., 1982-1994. Assistant to editor, The Deliberation of the Council of Four. Princeton, N.J., 1992. Co-editor: The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years. New York, 1998.
Assignment at GHI: Research Fellow and Editor.
Main Project at GHI: Woodrow Wilson and Germany.

Kenneth F. Ledford

1989-91; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1988.
Previous position: Visiting Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Professorial Lecturer, The Johns Hopkins University.
Current position: Professor, Case Western Reserve University.
Major publications:From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers, 1878-1933. New York, 1996.
Assignment at GHI: Research Fellow and Editor.
Main project at GHI: The German legal profession.

Petra Marquardt-Bigman

1996-98; Dr. phil., University of Tübingen, 1991.
Previous position: Research Assistant, Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv.
Major publications:Amerikanische Geheimdienstanalysen über Deutschland 1942-1949. Munich, 1995.
Assignment at GHI: Research Fellow and Editor.
Main project at GHI: United States foreign policy in Africa.

Daniel S. Mattern

1992-Present; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991.
Previous position: Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Current position: Senior Editor, GHI Washington.

Janine S. Micunek

1991-97; B.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1988.
Previous position: Program Officer, Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art, Washington, D.C.
Current positions: Student, Landscape Design program, George Washington University; Office Assistant, Lawson Carter Epstein Landscape Architects, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Assignment at GHI: Copy Editor.

David B. Morris

1997-Present; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1995. Previous Position: Managing Editor, Germanic Review, Washington, D.C.
Current position: Editor, The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990, GHI Washington.

Jacqueline Taylor-Freckmann

1987-89; B.A., University of Warwick, 1983.
Assignment at GHI: Copy Editor and Assistant Librarian.

Librarians

Gaby Müller-Oehlrichs

1987-93; Diploma in Library Science, Free University of Berlin, 1976.
Previous position: Lecturer in German Literature and Librarian at the University of Belem/Brazil.
Current position: Library Director, Memorial at the House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin.
Assignment at GHI: Librarian.

Reiner Gogolin

1993-94; M.A., Free University of Berlin, 1983; Master of Library Science, Catholic University of America, 1993.
Previous position: Assistant Librarian, European Section, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Assignment at GHI: Librarian.

Iris Golumbeck

1995-98; Diploma in Library Science, Frankfurt am Main, 1987.
Previous position: Librarian, Institute for World Economics, Kiel.
Current position: Sales Manager, ExL Library Automation Systems, Hamburg.
Assignment at GHI: Librarian.

Elisabeth Mait

1993-Present; M.A. in Library Science, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1991.
Previous position: Student.
Current position: Library Associate, GHI Washington.

Luzie Nahr

1988-Present; B.A., University of Maryland at College Park, 1987.
Previous position: Student, University of Maryland at College Park.
Current position: Library Associate, GHI Washington.

Christine Welter

1991-93; M.A. in English literature, University of Virginia, 1988.
Previous position: German Language Instructor, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State.
Assignment at GHI: Library Associate.

Administration

Pamela Abraham

1994-98
Previous position: Intern, Goethe Institut,Washington, D.C.
Current position: Commercial Liaison and Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
Assignment at GHI: Special Projects Coordinator.

Bärbel Bernhardt (House)

1987-96
Previous position: Secretary, German Military Representative, Washington, D.C.
Current position: Staff Assistant, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
Assignment at GHI: Foreign Language Assistant.

Christa Brown

1987-Present
Previous position: Foreign Language Assistant, German Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Current position: Foreign Language Assistant, GHI Washington.

Winfried Haubold

1989-Present
Previous position: Head of Disbursement Section, German Military Representative, Washington, D.C.
Current position: Deputy Administrative Director, GHI Washington.

Verena Heinzen

1987
Previous position: Foreign Language Assistant, German Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Assignment at GHI: Foreign Language Assistant.

Dieter H. Schneider

1987-Present
Previous position: Administrative Director, PTAUG-German Aerospace Center, Bonn.
Current position: Administrative Director, GHI Washington.

Bärbel Thomas

1996-Present
Previous position: Legal Assistant, Pierson and Burnette, Washington, D.C.
Current position: Foreign Language Assistant, GHI Washington.

Technical Support

Ray Clark

1990-93; M.A., American University, 1989.
Previous position: Graduate student.
Current position: Employed in private business.
Assignment at GHI: Technical Assistant.

Afaf Yousif

1994-Present
Previous position: Assistant Manager, Junior League Shop; Receptionist, ELS Inc.
Current position: Technical Assistant, GHI Washington.

Receptionists

C. Petra Hauck

1991-96

Angela Laine

1994-Present

Gerit Lewis

1989-91

Renate E. Solenberger

1989-90

Susanne White

1990-98

Temporary Affiliates

Gabriele Simon Edgcomb

1988-91; B.A., University of Chicago, 1946.
Previous position: Researcher on DFG Project, GHI Washington.
Major publications:From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges. Malabar, Fl., 1993.
Project at GHI: Refugee scholars at black colleges.

Robert P. Grathwol

1996-97; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1968.
Previous position: Partner and Director of Research, R&D Associates.
Current Position: Director, U.S. Liaison Office, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Major publications:Stresemann and the DNVP: Reconciliation or Revenge in German Foreign Policy, 1924-1928. Lawrence, Kans., 1980. Co-author, American Forces in Berlin: Cold War Outpost, 1945-1994. Washington, D.C., 1994. Co-author: Oral History and Postwar German-American Relations: Resources in the United States (Reference Guide no. 8). Washington, D.C., 1997.
Project at GHI: Guide to oral history resources.

Anne Scott Hope

1988-91; M.A., Brigham Young University, 1988.
Previous position: Student.
Current position: Librarian, Chicago.
Assignment at GHI: Research Assistant.

Robert Gerald Livingston.

1997-98; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1959.
Previous position: Director, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, D.C.
Current position: Senior Visiting Research Fellow, GHI Washington.
Major publications: Editor: West German Political Parties. Washington, D.C., 1986. Co-editor: The United States Congress and the West German Bundestag: Comparisons of Democratic Processes. Boulder, Colo., 1990. Co-editor: The Future of German Democracy. New York, 1993.
Project at GHI: Key personalities and issues in German-American relations after 1945.