Astrid M. Eckert - Emory College - Emory University

Astrid M. EckertEDUCATION1999-2002 FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, Ph.D. in History (2003), summa cum laudeDissertation advisor: Knud KrakauSecond Reader: Norbert Frei, Bochum (now Jena)1998-99 YALE UNIVERSITYVisiting Research Fellow, Fox International Fellowship1994-95 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, M.A. (1995)Major Field: American History1991-98 FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, M.A. (1998)Major Fields: Modern European History and American HistoryACADEMIC APPOINTMENTSSinceJan. 2006Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Emory University, Department ofHistory, Atlanta, GAAffiliated faculty of the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studiesand the German Studies DepartmentJan.-Dec.2008 Commissioned Writer for the Independent Historical Commission on the History ofthe German Foreign Office during National Socialism and the Early Federal RepublicContributed sections on 1) the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg 1945/46; 2) the MinistriesTrial 1947-49 (Case 11); 3) the Foreign Office’s treatment of former members of the Germanresistance in terms of restitution & memory; the Fischer controversy of 1961Fall 2002 –Fall 2005Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.1999 Editor (contract basis), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften,Berlin: copy edited Die Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1914-1945 [The History of the Prussian Academy of Science, 1918-1945, Berlin:Akademie Verlag, 2002]RESEARCH RELATED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS2011 Daimler Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy Berlin for Spring Semester 20112010 University Research Committee (URC) Award, Emory University

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae22010 DAAD Faculty Research Visit Grant (mid-Sept. – mid-Dec. 2010)2010 Emory College Research Grants in Humanistic Inquiry for summer research2009 Faculty International Research Grant, Institute for Critical Comparative andInternational Studies (ICIS), Emory University2007 Faculty International Travel Grant, Institute for Comparative and InternationalStudies (ICIS), Emory UniversityZentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam, Leibniz Summer Fellowship,June & July2005 Honorable Mention at H-Soz-u-Kult book award “History Books 2004” -- category‘Award of the H-Soz-u-Kult Audience’2004 Hedwig Hintze Prize of the German Historical Association, awarded every two yearsfor the best dissertation in history (entries from all fields, one award) (€5,000)2004 Friedrich Meinecke Prize for best dissertation in the History Department of the FreeUniversity of Berlin (all summa cum laude dissertations in any given year, oneaward)2000-02 German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung) Dissertation Grant2000 German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Dissertation Research Grant2000 German Historical Institute, London, Dissertation Research Grant1998-99 Fox International Fellowship, Yale University1994-95 Fulbright Fellowship1993-1998 Konrad Adenauer Foundation ScholarshipTEACHING RELATED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS2009 Hightower Fund to bring Dr Richard Wetzell, Washington, D. C., to speak in HIST385: Nazi Politics and Medicine2008 Winner in peer-reviewed H-German Syllabus Contest for Emory HIST 585: WritingHistory, Fighting History – Controversies in German Historiography after 1945(Graduate Course) athttp://www.h-net.org/~german/syllabi/syllabus_index.htm2006 Emory Center for Teaching and Curriculum Course Development Grant for EmoryHIST 190: History that Never Happened (Freshman Seminar)6/6/2011

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae32006 Winner in peer-reviewed H-German Syllabus Contest for Emory HIST 487:Germany after 1945: Reconstruction & Memory (Senior Colloquium) athttp://www.h-net.org/~german/syllabi/syllabus_index.htm2005 Tenth Annual Summer Institute on teaching the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 19 - July 1, 2005PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESSBooksWest Germany and the Iron Curtain. New book project.Fight for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of Captured German Archives(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).2004 Kampf um die Akten. Die Westalliierten und die Rückgabe von deutschem Archivgut nachdem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004). [Battle for the Files: The Western Alliesand the Return of Captured German Archives after World War II]1999 Feindbilder im Wandel. Ein Vergleich des Deutschland- und des Japanbildes in den USA1945 und 1946 (Münster: Lit, 1999). [Images of the Enemy in Transition: AmericanPerceptions of Germany and Japan at the End of World War II]Edited Collections2007 Institutions of Public Memory: The Legacies of German and American Politicians(Washington, D. C.: German Historical Institute/Sheridan Press, 2007).2006 Das Deutsche Archivwesen und der Nationalsozialismus [The German Archival Professionand National Socialism], ed. for the German Archival Association by Robert Kretzschmar incooperation with Astrid M. Eckert, Heiner Schmitt, Dieter Speck, Klaus Wisotzky (Essen:Klartext Verlag, 2006).2004 Der Holocaust und die westdeutschen Historiker. Eine Debatte [The Holocaust and WestGerman historians: a debate], eds., Astrid M. Eckert & Vera Ziegeldorf (Berlin: Clio-online,2004).Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters2011 “’Greetings From the Zonal Border’. Tourism to the Iron Curtain in West Germany,”Zeithistorische Forschung/Studies in Contemporary History 8:1 (2011), 9-36.2007 “Managing Their Own Past. German Archivists between National Socialism andDemocracy,” Archival Science [Springer Publ.] 7:3 (2007): 223-244.“The Transnational Beginnings of West German Zeitgeschichte in the 1950s,” CentralEuropean History 40:2 (March 2007): 63-87.6/6/2011

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae42005 "'…[a]nd grant German and foreign scholars access at all times': Archival Access in WestGermany during the Cold War," in Michael Cook, Margaret Procter, and Caroline Williams,eds., Political Pressure and the Archival Record (Chicago: Society of American Archivists,2005), 75-91.2004 "Glasplatten im märkischen Sand: Ein Beitrag zur Überlieferungsgeschichte derTageseinträge und Diktate von Joseph Goebbels," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 52(2004): 479-526 (with Stefan Martens). [New sources on the postwar fate of the so-calledGoebbels’ diaries]Other Articles and Chapters2011 “’Zaun-Gäste.’ Die innerdeutsche Grenze als Touristenattraktion.” – invited contribution toGrenzziehungen, Grenzerfahrungen, Grenzüberschreitungen. Die innerdeutsche Grenze1945-1990 [exhibition catalogue], ed. by Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann, Carl-HansHauptmeyer, Thomas Schwark (Darmstadt: WBG, 2011), 243-251.“Archive im Nationalsozialismus. Zum Forschungsstand,“ in Michael Knoche, WolfgangSchmitz, eds., Wissenschaftliche Bibliothekare im Nationalsozialismus (Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz, 2011) (Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesens), 51-89, inpress.2010 with Peter Hayes, “Diplomaten im Visier” and “Prozessverlauf und gespaltenes Urteil,” inEckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, and Moshe Zimmermann, Das Amt und dieVergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik (Munich:Karl Blessing Verlag, 2010), 375-401. [contribution to the work of the HistoricalCommission on the History of the German Foreign Office]“Zweierlei Widerstand: Der Fall Rudolf von Scheliha”, and “’Hier braut sich ein Skandalzusammen’”, in ibid., 558-569 and 615-620. [contribution to the work of the HistoricalCommission on the History of the German Foreign Office]“Archivar”, Das Werkzeug des Historikers. Stichworte zu Praxis und Theorie derGeschichte, eds. Anne Kwaschik, Mario Wimmer (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2010), 21-26.2008 “Notwendige Kooperation: Westdeutsche Zeitgeschichte als transnationales Projekt in den1950er Jahren” (“Unavoidable Cooperation: West German Contemporary History as aTransnational Project in the 1950s”) in Die Rückkehr der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaftin die Ökumene der Historiker nach 1945. Ein wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Ansatz, ed.Ulrich Pfeil, (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2008), 133-152.2006 “’Im Fegefeuer der Entbräunung’. Deutsche Archivare auf dem Weg in den Nachkrieg,“ inDas deutsche Archivwesen und der Nationalsozialismus, ed. by Robert Kretzschmar, AstridM. Eckert, Heiner Schmitt, Dieter Speck, Klaus Wisotzky (Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006),422-444. [’In the hell of denazification’: German archivists on the path into the postwar era]6/6/2011

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae5“Zur Einführung: Archive und Archivare im Nationalsozialismus,” in Das deutscheArchivwesen und der Nationalsozialismus, 9-17. [Introduction: Archives and Archivistsduring National Socialism, see above]2005 “Bundesdeutsche Souveränität und die Rückgabe der diplomatischen Akten,“ APuZ – AusPolitik und Zeitgeschichte 17/2005 (25 April 2005): 24-30. [Federal sovereignty and thereturn of the captured diplomatic files]2003 "American History in Germany: The View of the Practitioners," Bulletin of the GermanHistorical Institute, no. 32 (Spring 2003): 51-84.2002 "Homo Politicus vs. Homo Academicus: Der amtliche Historiker im Spannungsverhältniszwischen Regierungsauftrag und historischer 'Objektivität'," Francia 29 (2002): 119-23.[The government historian between governmental contract and scholarly "objectivity"]"Hinter den Kulissen der Rückgabediplomatie. Interne Positionen der Briten undAmerikaner zur Rückgabe deutschen Schriftguts in den 1950er Jahren," in Archive undHerrschaft. Referate des 72. Deutschen Archivtags. 18. – 21. September 2001 in Cottbus.Veranstaltet vom Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare (Der Archivar. Beiband7) (Siegburg: VdA, 2002), 107-17. [Behind the scenes of restitution diplomacy: debatesbetween the British and Americans on the return of captured records in the 1950s]2000 "Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act – Aktenfreigaben in den National Archives, Washington,D.C.," in H-Soz-Kult (June 30, 2000), http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/BEITRAG/essays/ecas0600.htmConference and Research Reports6/6/2011“German-American Historiography since the 1930s: Some New Views”, on H-Germanonline discussion network (November 29, 2007)."Access – Presentation – Memory: The American Presidential Libraries and the MemorialFoundations of German Politicians" Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 36(Spring 2005), 105-113."Reconstituting Public Realms: Archivists, Librarians, and Journalists in Postwar Germany,"Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 35 (Fall 2004)."The Fight for the Files: Captured German Records After World War II," Bulletin of theGerman Historical Institute, no. 32 (Spring 2003), 144-148, and on H-German onlinediscussion network (November 26, 2002)Essays in Newspapers“No Man’s LandScapes,” Berlin Journal 20 (Spring 2011), 32-35.“The East of the West. Studying the Borderlands of the ‘Old’ Federal Republic,”Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 10 Sept. 2010.

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae6"Eine alliierte Posse um Goebbels’ Nachlass: Die Notate des Reichspropagandaministers –neue Funde," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, no. 163 (July 16, 2004), 44 (with Stefan Martens).[An Allied farce involving Goebbels’ papers: new findings on the notes of the ReichPropaganda Minister]"Unbedenklich? 50 Jahre Bundesarchiv: Ein Amt mit Vergangenheit," Süddeutsche Zeitung,no. 125 (June 3, 2002), 14. [Unproblematic? The 50th anniversary of the Federal Archives,an institution with a past]"Was Ernst Jünger dem nationalen Führer kredenzte: Die Library of Congress inWashington listet die Bücher aus dem Besitz Adolf Hitlers samt ergebenen Widmungenauf," Die Welt (May 29, 2001), 35. [What Ernst Jünger presented to his national Führer: TheLibrary of Congress in Washington holds the books from Hitler’s library, inscribed withloving dedications]Book ReviewsCentral European History, English Historical Review, Historisch Politisches Buch, HistorischeZeitschrift, Journal of American History, Militärgeschichtliche ZeitschriftRECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES (2005-2010)2012 “The East of the West: The Making of West Germany’s Borderlands,” paper submission aspart of panel “Making and Umaking of Border Populations,” European Social ScienceHistory Conference, 11-14 April 2012, Glasgow2011 “In the Shadow of the ‘Economic Miracle’? Subsidy Politics in the West GermanBorderlands,” paper accepted for the German Studies Association, Sept. 2011, Louisville,KY.6/6/2011“Die ‘alte’ Bundesrepublik und die innerdeutsche Grenze – Überlegungen zu einemBuchprojekt,” Research Colloquium, Institut für Zeitgeschichte Berlin-Lichterfelde, May 4,2011.“Curiosity, Anxiety, and the Cold War. The Iron Curtain as a Tourist Attraction.” InvitedLecture at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development – Center for the History ofEmotions, Berlin-Dahlem, May 3, 2011.“West Germany and the Iron Curtain,” Daimler Lecture, American Academy Berlin, April12, 2011. Add link“Die ‘alte’ Bundesrepublik und die innerdeutsche Grenze – Überlegungen zu einemBuchprojekt,” Research Colloquium, Department of History, Georg-August UniversityGöttingen, Feb. 3, 2011.2010 “The East of the West. The Image Problem of the West German Borderlands”, Workshop onBorder Communities. Microstudies on Everyday Life, Politics and Memory in European

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae76/6/2011Societies from 1945 to the Present, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History,Vienna, Oct. 14-15, 2010.“Barbed Wire into Biodiversity. Transboundary Nature Preservation along the (Former) IronCurtain”, Rachel Carson Center for Environmental History – Research Colloquium, Munich,July 22, 2010.“’Blick in die Zone.’ Die innerdeutsche Grenze als Touristenattraktion”, at ConferenceGrenze – Konstruktion Realität Narrative, hosted by the Leibniz University Hanover incooperation with the Historical Museum Hanover, June 24-26, 2010.“Inter-German Migration during the Cold War, or: What did moving from Germany toGermany do to ‘Germanness’?,” pre-circulated position paper for the South East GermanStudies Workshop (SEGSW), Georgia State University, Atlanta, March 11-12, 20102009 “Archivists During National Socialism. Recent Scholarship,” invited speaker for aconference in Weimar, Germany, on Libraries and Librarians during National Socialism,Dec. 7-9, 2009; travel stipend by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.Commentary on Panel “Border Regimes as Political Governance”, 33 rd German StudiesAssociation (GSA), Washington, D. C., October 8-11, 2009.“Seeing is Believing: Tourism to the Inter-German Border During the Cold War,” 33 rdGerman Studies Association (GSA), Washington, D. C., October 8-11, 2009.“Getting Used to Partition: Tourism to the Inter-German Border during the Cold War,” paperat the international conference Constructing Nation: From Modernity to the NewMillennium, University of Colorado-Boulder, March 13-14, 2009.“The Memory of the Underbrush: The Green Belt along the former Iron Curtain,” precirculatedposition paper for the South East German Studies Workshop (SEGSW),University of South Carolina at Columbia, March 5-6, 2009.2008 “Bulk Filming: Enabling the Transatlantic Study of National Socialism.” Invited roundtablecontribution. Perspectives on National Socialism, Global War and the Holocaust:Symposium in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg, held at the German Historical InstituteWashington, D. C., May 2, 2008.“Ash on the Iron Curtain”, pre-circulated position paper for the South East German StudiesWorkshop (SEGSW), University of South Carolina at Columbia, March 7-8, 2008.“Zeitgeschichte in der richtigen ‘Währung’: Die Institutionalisierung der westdeutschenZeitgeschichte als transnationales Unternehmen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg,“ ResearchCenter for Contemporary History Hamburg (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte), invitedtalk for the annual meeting of the Center’s advisory board, February 10, 2008.“Where the West Ended: Tourism in the West German Borderland Region”. AHA January3-6, 2008, Washington, D. C., Panel “’The Wall in the Head’: Making East and West on theGerman-German Border, 1949-1989”.

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae82007 Commentary to the Panel “German-American Historiography since the 1930s: Some NewViews”, German Studies Association (GSA), San Diego, October 4-7, 2007.“Tourism to the Inter-German Border, 1950s to 1989”. Workshop Presentation at the Centerfor Contemporary History Research (ZZF), Potsdam, 18 July 2007.“Notwendige Kooperation: Westdeutsche Zeitgeschichte als transnationales Projekt in den1950er Jahren,” Conference on “The Return of the German Historical Profession into theInternational Scientific Community after 1945,” convened by the German Historical InstituteParis, July 5 and 6, 2007. [“Unavoidable Cooperation: West German Contemporary Historyas a Transnational Project in the 1950s”]“Vom Persilschein zum Generationswechsel: Westdeutsche Archivare in derNachkriegszeit”, Public Talk at the Center for Contemporary History Research Potsdam(ZZF), June 7, 2007. [“From Persilschein to Generational Change: West German Archivistsduring the Postwar Era”]“Turning Presence into History: Writing German Contemporary History after the SecondWorld War”, Lockmiller Seminar, Department of History, Emory University, March 19,2007.2006 “German Archivists and National Socialism”. Lecture and seminar discussion at the GermanArchives School in Marburg, June 6, 2006.2005 "'Im Fegefeuer der Entbräunung': Deutsche Archivare auf dem Weg in den Nachkrieg," 75thDeutscher Archivtag: Deutsche Archive und Archivare im Nationalsozialismus undNachkrieg, Stuttgart, Germany (Sept. 27-29, 2005). ["In the Purgatory of Denazification":German Archivists on the Path into the Postwar Era]Closing Roundtable Discussion (invited participant), 75th Deutscher Archivtag: DeutscheArchive und Archivare im Nationalsozialismus und Nachkrieg, Stuttgart, Germany (Sept.27-29, 2005). [German Archivists’ Annual Meeting]"Managing Their Own Past: German Archivists between Nazism and Democracy," SecondInternational Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-Chora 2). Amsterdam(Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2005)."Testing Freedom on the Frontier. Edward Coles and the Issue of Slavery in the OldNorthwest, " 27th Annual Meeting of the Historians in the German Association forAmerican Studies "American Historiography: Approaches, Issues, Controversies, " StiftungLeucorea, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 11-13 February 2005.PROFESSIONAL SERVICE2007 Member of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize Committee, awarded annually by TheFriends of the German Historical Institute6/6/2011

Astrid M. Eckert – Curriculum Vitae9Since 2006Member of the Steering Committee for the annual South-Eastern German StudiesWorkshop2006-09 Member (2009: Chair) of the Parker-Schmidt-Simpson Dissertation Award SelectionCommittee, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association2006-08 Jury Member, H-Soz-Kult Book of the Year AwardSince 2004Archives Committee, German Studies Association (GSA)2002-04 Acquisitions Committee, German Historical Institute2000-02 Selection Committee, German Fulbright CommissionPROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONSAmerican Historical AssociationGerman Studies AssociationConference Group on Central European HistorySouthern Historical Association – European SectionVerband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands [German Historical Association]6/6/2011