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Hope M. Harrison
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
| 1957 E St. NW, #412 |
Phone: (202) 994-5439 |
| Washington, D.C. 20052 |
Email: hopeharr@gwu.edu |
Hope M. Harrison published a prize-winning book in 2003 on the East German and Soviet decision to build the Berlin Wall. Co-founder and current co-director of GW's Cold War Group, she is fluent in Russian and German and worked extensively in archives in Moscow and Berlin on this topic. Her current book project examines the Berlin Wall as a contested site of memory in Germany from 1989-2009. Professor Harrison's broader research interests are Cold War international history, the intersection of history, memory and politics, Soviet and Russian foreign policy decision making, the two Germanys in the Cold War, and the methods countries use to deal with difficult aspects of their past (such as through war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, or memorials). She has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN and the History Channel. Professor Harrison has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the American Academy in Berlin, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Davis Center at Harvard University, the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Institute for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany, and the Council on Foreign Relations. (Complete C.V.)
Selected Publications
"Teaching and Scholarship on the Cold War in the United States." Cold War History 8, no. 2 (May 2008): 259-284.
"The Berlin Wall-an Icon of the Cold War Era?" In On Both Sides of the Wall: Preserving Monuments and Sites of the Cold War Era, ed. Leo Schmidt and Henriette von Preuschen, 18-27. Berlin and Bonn: Westkreuz-Verlag, GmbH, 2005.
"Ein Superalliierter und eine Supermacht? Sowjetisch-ostdeutsche Beziehungen, 1953 bis 1961." In Militär, Staat und Gesellschaft in der DDR: Forschungsfelder, Ergebnisse, Perspektiven, ed. Hans Ehlert and Matthias Rogg, 83-95. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2004.
Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
- Winner, 2004 Marshall Shulman Prize for the best book on international affairs/foreign policy of the former Soviet bloc by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
"The German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall Crisis." The Berlin Wall Crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances, ed. John P.S. Gearson and Kori Schake, 96-124. Hampshire and NY: Palgrave/Macmillan Cold War History Series, 2002.
"Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: A Superally, A Superpower, and the Berlin Wall, 1958-61." Cold War History 1, no. 1 (August 2000): 53-74.
Courses Taught
Hist 135: The Two Germanys and the Cold War
Hist 183: The International History of the Cold War
Hist 237: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991
Hist 251: The Uses of History in International Affairs
Hist 251: Politics, History and Memory in Berlin (taught for 2 weeks in the summer in Berlin)
Hist 257: Rethinking the Cold War
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1993.
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