Hope M. Harrison Professor of History & International Affairs The Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University

1957 E. St., N.W., Suite 412 Phone: (202)994-5439 Washington, D.C. 20052 email: [email protected]

CURRENT POSITIONS Professor of History and International Affairs, Department of History and the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses on the cold war, Germany since 1945, Soviet and Russian history since 1917, and the uses and misuses of history in international affairs. Advise graduate and undergraduate students. August 1999-present.

Co-chair, Advisory Council, History and Public Policy Program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 2020-present.

Member, Academic Council, Victims of Communism Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2019-present.

Member of the Board, Foundation for German-American Academic Relations (Stiftung Deutsch- Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen), 2016-present.

Member, Advisory Board, Point Alpha Foundation (Stiftung Point Alpha), Geisa, Germany, 2015- present.

Member, International Advisory Board, Allied Museum (Alliiertenmuseum), Berlin, 2011-present.

Member, Governing Board, Berlin Wall Association (Förderverein Berliner Mauer), Berlin Wall Memorial (Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer), Berlin, 2010-present.

Founding Member, Governing Board and International Advisory Board, BlackBox Cold War: Exhibition at Checkpoint Charlie (BlackBox Kalter Krieg: Ausstellung am Checkpoint Charlie), 2010-present.

GOVERNMENT SERVICE Director for European and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council, Executive Office of the President, 2000-2001, as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. Portfolio encompassed White House relations with Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus.

EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University, 1993. M.Phil., Political Science, Columbia University, 1991. Certificate, The Harriman Institute for Advanced Soviet Studies, Columbia University, 1991. B.A., Social Studies, Harvard University, 1985.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS Associate Dean for Research, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Sept. 2015-Dec. 2016. Oversaw 10 research centers and institutes; facilitated sponsored research proposals by faculty totaling more than $11 million in the 2015-16 fiscal year and more than $7 million in the first half of the 2016-17 fiscal year; founded and oversaw the Elliott School Book Launch Series; coordinated research presentations by students and faculty; represented the Elliott

1 School on university-wide research committees; and was part of the senior administrative staff working on Elliott School-wide initiatives and policies.

Director, Program on Conducting Archival Research, George Washington University. Principal Investigator for a three-year $330,000 grant (2008-2011) and a two-year $50,000 grant (2006-2008) from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to train doctoral students from the US and abroad in historical archival research. Also won a three-year $259,000 grant (2011-2014) to continue the program but stepped down as director in 2011.

Director, Institute for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, July 2005-Aug. 2009. Directed the activities of the Institute, overseeing visiting scholars, running seminars and conferences, raising funds.

Director, Master’s Program in European and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, January 2008-Aug. 2009. Oversaw admissions, curriculum and advising for the MA program.

Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Law, Lafayette College, September 1995-August 1999.

Lecturer in Politics, Brandeis University, September 1994-May 1995.

PUBLICATIONS BOOKS After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany: 1989 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Ulbrichts Mauer: Wie die SED Moskaus Widerstand gegen den Mauerbau brach (Ulbricht’s Wall: How the SED Broke Moscow’s Resistance to Building the Wall), Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 2011 (expanded and updated German edition of Driving the Soviets up the Wall).

Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961, Princeton University Press, 2003. Winner, Marshall Shulman prize for “outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2004.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES "Looking Back on the History of the Berlin Wall Twenty Years after Its Fall," Soudobe dejiny (Contemporary History), Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (3-4/2012).

“Walter Ulbrichts ‘dringender Wunsch’” (“Walter Ulbricht’s ‘Urgent Desire’”), Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (Politics and Contemporary History) (31-34/2011, August 1, 2011, special issue on 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall), pp. 8-15.

“The Berlin Wall and its Resurrection as a Site of Memory,” German Politics and Society, Issue 99, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 78-106. Also edited this special issue of the journal dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall and wrote the introduction to the issue, pp. 1-7.

“Walter Ulbricht, der Bau der Mauer und der Umgang damit seit 1989” (“Walter Ulbricht, the Building of the Wall”), Deutschland Archiv 44 (2011, special issue on 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall), pp. 15-22. https://www.bpb.de/geschichte/zeitgeschichte/deutschlandarchiv/53734/ulbricht-und-die-mauer

2 “A Cold War Museum for Berlin,” Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 2 (2008), pp. 270-274.

“Teaching and Scholarship on the Cold War in the United States,” Cold War History, Vol. 8, no. 2 (May 2008), pp. 259-284.

“Ulbricht und der XX. Parteitag der KPdSU: Die Verhinderung politischer Korrekturen in der DDR, 1956-1958” (“Ulbricht and the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU: Resisting Political Changes in the GDR, 1956-1958”), Deutschland Archiv 1 (2006), pp. 43-53.

"Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: A Superally, A Superpower, and the Berlin Wall, 1958-61," Cold War History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (August 2000), pp. 53-74.

"The Effects of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising on the East German Leadership," Hungary and the World, 1956: The New Archival Evidence, ÉVKÖNYV, V-VI (Budapest: Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 1996-97).

"Soviet-East German Relations After World War II," Problems of Post-Communism (September/October 1995), pp. 9-17.

REFEREED ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES “Berlin and the Cold War Struggle over Germany,” in Artemy Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War (Oxford, England: Routledge, 2014), pp. 56-72.

“Die Berliner Mauer an der Bernauer Strasse als ein Ort des Erinnerns, 1989-2011” (“The Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse as a Site of Memory, 1989-2011”), Ulrich Mählert, et al., Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for Historical Research on Communism), XVII (2011), no. 24, pp. 281-297.

"The German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall Crisis," Ch. 6 in John P.S. Gearson and Kori Schake, eds., The Berlin Wall Crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances (Hampshire and NY: Palgrave/Macmillan Cold War History Series, 2002), pp. 96-124.

"The Nuclear Education of Nikita Khrushchev," by Vladislav M. Zubok and Hope M. Harrison, in John Lewis Gaddis, Philip H. Gordon, Ernest R. May, and Jon Rosenberg, eds., Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 (NY: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 141- 168.

REFEREED ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE VOLUMES “Berlin’s Gesamtkonzept for Remembering the Berlin Wall,” in Konrad H. Jarausch, Christian F. Ostermann, Andreas Etges, eds., The Cold War: Historiography, Memory, Representation (Oldenbourg: de Gruyter, 2017), pp. 239-266.

“The Berlin Wall: Looking Back on the History of the Wall Twenty Years After its Fall,” in Mark Kramer and Vit Smetana, eds., Weaving and Tearing Asunder the Iron Curtain, Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series and Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, MD: 2014), pp. 173-196.

“The Demise and Resurrection of the Berlin Wall: German Debates About the Wall as a Site of Memory,” in: Birgit Hofmann/ Katja Wezel/ Katrin Hammerstein/ Regina Fritz/ Julie Trappe, eds., Diktaturüberwindung in Europa. Neue nationale und transnationale Perspektiven (Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe: New National and Transnational Perspectives), (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2010), pp.195-209.

“Wie kam es zum Mauerbau?” (“What Led to the Building of the Wall?”), Tagung: Mauer und Grenze--Denkmal und Gedenken. (Conference: The Wall and the Border: Memorial and

3 Commemoration.) Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Nationalkomitees fuer Denmkmalschutz (Publication series of the German National Committee for Historic Preservation), Volume 76/2 (Bonn: Beauftragter der Bundesregierung fuer Kultur und Medien, 2009), pp. 65-70.

“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, eds., Leo Schmidt and Henriette von Preuschen (Berlin and Bonn: Westkreuz-Verlag, GmbH, 2005), pp. 18-27.

"Ein Superalliierter und eine Supermacht? Sowjetisch-ostdeutsche Beziehungen, 1953 bis 1961," in Hans Ehlert and Matthias Rogg, ed., Militär, Staat und Gesellschaft in der DDR: Forschungsfelder, Ergebnisse, Perspektiven (Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2004), pp. 83-95.

"Wie die Sowjetunion zum Mauerbau getrieben wurde. Ein Superalliierter, eine Supermacht und der Bau der Berliner Mauer" ("How the Soviet Union was Pushed into Building the Wall. A Superally, a Superpower and the Building of the Berlin Wall"), in Hans-Hermann Hertle, Konrad H. Jarausch and Christoph Klessmann, eds., Mauerbau und Mauerfall. Ursachen--Verlauf--Auswirkungen (The Rise and Fall of the Wall. Causes--Process--Effects) (Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2002), pp. 77-96.

"Die Berlin-Krise und die Beziehungen zwischen der UdSSR und der DDR" ("The Berlin Crisis and Relations between the USSR and the GDR"), in Gerhard Wettig, ed., Die sowjetische Deutschland- Politik in der Ära Adenauer (Soviet Policy Toward Germany in the Adenauer Era), Rhöndorfer Gespräche, Band 16 (Rhöndorf Discussions, Volume 16), (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1997), pp. 105-122, 175-185.

"Politika Sovetskogo Soyuza i Vostochnoi Germanii v Period Berlinskogo Krizisa, 1958-1961" ("The Policy of the Soviet Union and East Germany in the Period of the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961"), in I.V. Gaiduk, M.L. Korobochkin, M.M. Narinsky and A.O. Chubarian, eds., Kholodnaya Voina. Novyie Podkhodyi, Novyie Dokumentyi (The Cold War. New Approaches, New Documents) (Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Universal History, 1995), pp. 275-293.

"Ulbricht, Khrushchev, and the Berlin Wall, 1958-1961: New Archival Evidence from Moscow and Berlin," in Gustav Schmidt, ed., Ost-West Beziehungen: Konfrontation und Détente, 1945-1989, Vol. II (Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, 1993), pp. 333-348.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS "`If you have thrown the enemy to the ground, you don't need to then kneel on his chest': The Khrushchev-Ulbricht Summits in Moscow, June 9 and 18, 1959," Bulletin of the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., No. 11 (Winter 1998).

"New Evidence on Khrushchev's 1958 Berlin Ultimatum," translation and commentary, CWIHP Bulletin, Issue 4, Fall 1994.

"Ulbricht and the Concrete `Rose': New Archival Evidence on the Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961," CWIHP Working Paper No. 5, May 1993.

"Inside the SED Archives: A Researcher's Diary," CWIHP Bulletin, Issue 2, Fall 1992, pp. 20, 28-32.

MEDIA PUBLICATIONS “Meistererzählung mit Leerstellen” (“Master narrative with blank spaces”), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 19, 2019. Link to the English version: https://www.faz.net/english/debate-on- german-reunification-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-16392638.html

4 “Mit Gefühl. Erst verschwand die Mauer, dann verblasste der Schrecken.” (“With Feeling. First the Wall disappeared, then the horror faded”), Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 9, 2014 (full-page article in special edition of this daily newspaper in Berlin on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall).

“Deutsches Gedenken: Es kommt mit der Zeit” (“German Commemoration: It comes with time”), editorial, Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 9, 2014.

“Five Myths about the Berlin Wall,” The Washington Post, Oct. 30, 2014, on-line and “Tear down these Myths,” Nov. 2, 2014, print, Sunday Outlook section, p. B2. Re-printed in Chinese by The China Observer, Nov. 7, 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the- berlin-wall/2014/10/30/f6cf1bc4-5df7-11e4-9f3a- 7e28799e0549_story.html?utm_term=.2d90a82744c8

“Saving the Berlin Wall: reconstructing a deconstructed history,” Forbes.com, Nov. 3, 2009. https://www.forbes.com/2009/10/30/berlin-wall-history-memorial-opinions-contributors-berlin-wall- 09-hope-m-harrison.html#352f8786374f

“Bis 1961 mauerte Moskau” (“Moscow Stonewalled until 1961"), Welt am Sonntag (largest circulation Sunday newspaper in Germany), op-ed, August 8, 2004.

"Zwei Männer und ein Machtkampf" ("Two Men and a Power Struggle"), Berliner Zeitung, August 10, 1996. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mit-der-mauer-konnte-chruschtschow-auch-ulbrichts- forderungen-eindaemmen-zwei-maenner-und-ein-machtkampf-16982888

WEB PUBLICATIONS “Berlin: The Border and Memory,“ special issue on Borders and Beyond, Wilson Quarterly, Fall 2019. The photographer Steve Weinberg’s photographs accompany my text. http://wilson-quarterly- next.proof.press.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/quarterly/borders-and-beyond/berlin/

“Reflections from the Berlin Wall: 25 Years Later,“ blog from Berlin, chronicling and analyzing the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 6-12, 2014. Commissioned by the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. http://blog.spymuseum.org/reflections-from-the-berlin-wall-25-years-later/

“From Shame to Pride: The Fall of the Berlin Wall through German Eyes,” The Wilson Quarterly, Nov. 2014 (re-printed in India by Fair Observer, Nov. 9, 2014). https://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2014-1989-and-the-making-of-our-modern- world/from-shame-pride-fall-berlin-wall-through-german-eyes/

“United Germany at Twenty-Five: Progress, Pitfalls and a Lingering Legacy of Division,” American Institute of Contemporary German Studies, Advisor, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2015. https://www.aicgs.org/2015/09/united-germany-at-25/

e-dossier No. 23, “New Evidence on the Building of the Berlin Wall,” introduction, annotation and translation of a conversation between East German leader Walter Ulbricht and Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, August 1, 1961, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (August 12, 2011). https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/e-dossier-no-23- new-evidence-the-building-the-berlin-wall

AWARDS & HONORS American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2004 Marshall Shulman Prize for Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 (Princeton University Press, 2003).

American Council on Germany, Young Leader, 2003.

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GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS George Washington University, Humanities Facilitating Fund, Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), research grant, 2018-2019; and book subvention grant, 2019-20.

Jean Monnet Project Award, the European Union, Principal Investigator, “The EU in the US: Transatlantic Workshops in a Time of Political Transition,” project coordinated by Dr. Erwan Lagadec at GW’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, to engage students with EU policymakers and civil society representatives to enhance knowledge about the EU, 23,000 euros, 2017-18.

The Wilson Center, Wilson Center Fellowship, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2013-May 2014.

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary History), fellowship, Potsdam, Germany, July 2011.

Mellon Foundation, $259,000 grant for the Program on Conducting Archival Research (POCAR) to train doctoral students from the US and abroad in conducting historical archival research and to host a pre-doctoral fellow. Obtained the grant and then arranged for a colleague (Gregg Brazinsky) to be the principal investigator and run it, 2011-14.

Fulbright Senior Fellowship, Berlin, Germany, based at the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (Federal Foundation for Reappraising the SED [East German] Dictatorship), September 2009-May 2010.

Mellon Foundation, Principal Investigator, three-year, $330,000 grant for POCAR to train doctoral students from the US and abroad in conducting historical archival research and to host a pre-doctoral fellow, 2008-2011.

Mellon Foundation, Principal Investigator, two-year, $50,000 grant to run an annual Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR), 2006-2008.

American Academy in Berlin, George H.W. Bush Fellow, Spring 2004.

Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellow at the National Security Council as a Director for European and Eurasian Affairs, October 2000-June 2001.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Research Fellow, Oslo, Norway, February 1-July 1, 1999.

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Wilson Center, Research Scholarship, Washington, D.C., June-December 1998.

Lafayette College, Junior Faculty Leave award, spring 1999.

Cold War International History Project, research grant, summer 1996.

Russian Research Center, Harvard University, post-doctoral fellowship, 1993-1994.

Social Science Research Council, Pre-doctoral fellowship, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free University of Berlin, 1991-1992.

Center for Science and International Affairs, the Kennedy School, Harvard University, pre-doctoral fellowship, 1989-1991.

6 W. Averell Harriman Institute Junior Fellowship, Columbia University, 1989-1993.

RESEARCH POSITIONS (not involving funding) Public Policy Fellow, History and Public Policy Program, the Wilson Center, fall 2011, summer 2012, summer 2015, summer 2016.

Research Fellow, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der Geschichte der SED-Diktatur (Federal German Foundation for Reappraising the History of the SED [East German] Dictatorship), Berlin, Germany, summer 2005 and summer 2007.

Research Fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary History), Potsdam, Germany, November 2004.

Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1994-5.

Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1992-1993.

Research Fellow, Institute of the USA & Canada, Moscow, June-July 1992.

Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, September-October 1990.

CONFERENCE PAPERS Two papers at 6th World Conference of International Federation for Public History, Berlin, August 2021, forthcoming.

“German Memorialization and Memory Politics related to the Berlin Wall, 1989-2019” and “1989 in Germany,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), San Francisco, CA, two panels, Nov. 23, 2019.

“Remembering the Berlin Wall and its Victims,” conference on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, “Triumph of Liberty,” Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Washington, DC, Nov. 8, 2019.

“Images of ‘the People’ and the Evolution of Memory Policy on the Berlin Wall, 1989-2019,” German Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 3, 2019.

“Lessons from Service at the NSC for the Future of the Foreign Relations of the US (FRUS) Series,” panel on the future of FRUS, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA, June 24, 2017.

“Change in Historical Memory: Germany after the Fall of the Wall,” International Studies Association, annual conference, Baltimore MD, Feb. 25, 2017.

“Change in Historical Memory: Germany after the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” in conference on, “Has the Past Gone Away? The Future of Memory in Germany,” BMW Center, Georgetown University, Nov. 18, 2016.

“German Historical Memory of the Berlin Wall and National Identity,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia Univ., Apr. 16, 2016.

“The 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and German Historical Memory,” at conference on “The End of Stasiland?” Sponsored by the Institute for German Studies, Birmingham University, Oct. 29, 2014.

7 “German Historical Memory of the Berlin Wall, 1989-2014,” presented at conference on “Social Politics and the Cold War,” Bowdoin College, Maine, May 1-2, 2014.

“Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: New German National Pride and Founding Myth,” Conference of Europeanists, Council on European Studies, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2014.

“Views of the GDR as seen in Commemorations of the Berlin Wall since 1990,” presented at conference on “Domination and Power in the GDR,” University of Waterloo, Canada, May 26, 2013.

“The Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory, 1989-2011,” Association for the Study of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2011.

“The East German Role in the Building of the Berlin Wall,” presentation to conference hosted by the National Archives to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall, “A City Torn Apart: The Building of the Berlin Wall,” the National Archives, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2011.

“The Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory, 1989-2011,” German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, Sept. 24, 2011.

“The Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory, 1989-2011,” at conference on “The Cold War: History, Memory, Representation,” sponsored by the Berlin Senate, the Cold War International History Project, the Berlin Wall Foundation, the German Historical Institute, and other organizations in Berlin, held at the European Academy, Berlin, July 14-17, 2011.

“The Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory since 1989,” 25th anniversary alumni conference of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, “The Good Germans? New Transatlantic Perspectives,” June 29-July 2, 2011.

“The Politics of the Cold War and the Issue of Agency: The German Case,” Norwegian Nobel Institute Symposium, “International relations since the end of the Cold War: some key dimensions,” Lofoten Islands, Norway, June 22-26, 2011.

“Ulbrichts Mauer: Wie die SED Moskaus Widerstand gegen den Mauerbau brach” (“Ulbricht’s Wall: How the SED Broke Moscow’s Resistance to Building the Wall”), with Egon Bahr as commentator, book launch and keynote opening of conference at the Berlin Wall Memorial, “Der Mauerbau 1961: Kalter Krieg, Deutsche Teilung, Berlin” (“The 1961 Building of the Wall: The Cold War, the German Division, Berlin”) June 15, 2011. (in German)

“The Berlin Wall: Its Rise, Fall and Commemoration,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Westin Hotel, Alexandria, VA, April 9, 2011.

“Planning a Cold War Museum in Berlin,” at conference planning for a Cold War Museum in Berlin, sponsored by the Berlin Senate, the German-Russian Karlshorst Museum, the Berlin Wall Memorial, the Allied Museum and the JFK Institute of the Free University of Berlin and held at each of these sites, May 28-29, 2010.

“The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory,” European Fulbright conference, Park Hotel, Berlin, March 24, 2010.

“The US and German Unification, 1989-1990,” conference on “Path to German Unity,” presentation at the final, closing panel with Markus Meckel, the last East German foreign minister, Professor Alfred Grosser, and Dmitri Tultschinski of Russia’s RIA Novosti Press, conference sponsored by the Deutsche Gesellschaft and held at the representation of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin, March 10- 12, 2010. (in German)

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“The Building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and What we have Learned about it in the 20 Years since the Fall of the Wall,” conference on “Dropping, Maintaining and Breaking the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Center Europe twenty years later,” sponsored by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Department of International Studies at Charles University and held at the Liechtenstein Palace, Prague, Nov. 19-21, 2009.

“The Transformation of Europe Since 1989,” Berlin Marshall Forum, German Marshall Fund conference, held at the Berlin parliament, Oct. 22-24, 2009.

“US-Russian Relations after the Re-set,” at meeting of Global Atlanticists group of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, comprised of American and German policy experts and parliamentarians who met with their counterparts in Moscow, Baltschung Kempinski Hotel, Moscow, May 17-19, 2009.

“Wie kam es zur Mauerbau” (“What led to the building of the Berlin Wall”), conference on “The Wall and the Border: Memorial and Commemoration,” sponsored by the German National Committee for Historic Preservation and held at the Bundestag and the Academy of Arts, Berlin, May 10-12, 2009. (in German)

“The Past, Present and Future of the Berlin Wall: Contemporary Debates About How to Depict the Wall in Berlin,” conference on “Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe: New National and Transnational Perspectives,” University of Heidelberg, Germany, Nov. 22, 2007.

“Contemporary Debates about How to Depict the Berlin Wall,” German Studies Association, San Diego, California, Oct. 7, 2007.

“The Past, Present and Future of the Berlin Wall: Depictions and Remnants of the Berlin Wall and the East German Regime in Berlin,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 14, 2007.

“The Past, Present and Future of the Berlin Wall: Contemporary Debates about Handling the History of Divided Berlin and Germany,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., Nov. 18, 2006.

“East German Reactions to the Hungarian Revolution,” conference on “The 1956 Hungarian revolution in historical Perspective: 50th Anniversary Reassessments,” the Davis Center, Harvard, Oct. 30, 2006.

“Walter Ulbricht and the Effects of the 20th Congress of the CPSU on East Germany,” conference on, “De-Stalinization: The First Fifty Years Since Khrushchev’s Secret Speech,” George Washington University, February 16, 2006.

“The State of Research on the Cold War,” Organization of American Historians, San Jose, CA, April 2, 2005.

"The Berlin Wall: An Icon of the Cold War?" keynote address, "On Both Sides of the Wall: Preserving Monuments of the Cold War Era," Cecilienhof Palace, Potsdam, Germany, May 28, 2004.

"Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Walter Ulbricht's Pressure on the Soviets to Build the Berlin Wall," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 21, 2003.

"East German-Soviet Relations and the Berlin Wall" and "Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: East German Constraints on Soviet Policy Toward Germany," The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, George Washington University, June 6-7, 2003.

9 "Making History: United Germany's Attempts to Come to Terms with the East German Past," conference on "Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past," German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., March 27-29, 2003.

"Ein Superalliierter und eine Supermacht? Sowjetische-Ostdeustche Beziehungen, 1953-1961," Vortrag zur 45. Internationale Tagung für Militärgeschichte: Militär, Staat und Gesellschaft in der DDR, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam, Germany, March 18-20, 2003. ("A Superally and a Superpower? Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961," 45th International Conference on Military History: Military, State and Society in the GDR, Military History Research Office, Potsdam, Germany.) (in German)

"The Berlin Wall and Detente," conference on "German Ostpolitik and American Detente, 1969-72," German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., May 9, 2002.

"The Decision to Build the Berlin Wall," conference on the 40th anniversary of the building of the wall, "Mauerbau und Mauerfall” (“The Rise and Fall of the Wall”), sponsored by the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Center for Contemporary History) and the Cold War International History Project, Berlin, Germany, June 14-16, 2001.

"Soviet-East German Relations and the Building of the Berlin Wall, 1958-61," international conference on "The New Cold War History: Theory, Methodology, Historiography," sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Universal History (Moscow), the National Security Archives, and the Cold War International History Project, Moscow, June 8-9, 2000.

"Research in Former Soviet and East German Archives on the Cold War and the Berlin Wall," conference on "The Power of Free Inquiry and Cold War International History," National Archives, College Park, MD, Sept. 25-26, 1998.

"Understanding the Decision to Build the Berlin Wall," keynote address at conference on "Youth and History" sponsored by the Netherlands' Atlantic Commission and the German Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Kerkrade, the Netherlands, Nov. 7-8, 1997.

"The Intersection of the Sino-Soviet Rift and Soviet-East German Relations during the Berlin Crisis," international symposium on "Sino-Soviet Relations and the Cold War," Beijing, China, Oct. 21-24, 1997.

INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS “30 Years since the fall of the Wall and German Unification,” presentation at panel discussion, American Academy in Berlin, December 2020, forthcoming.

“German unification and the dismantling of Checkpoint Charlie in 1990,” The Allied Museum, Berlin, June 22, 2020. (virtual panel livestream)

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA, March 22, 2020. (canceled due to Covid-19)

“30 Years since the fall of the Wall and German Unification,” lecture tour in Germany (Leipzig Book Fair, Berlin, Halle, Bad Muskau, Chemnitz, Rostock) sponsored by US embassy in Berlin, March 11- 22, 2020. (canceled due to Covid-19)

“The Berlin Wall and the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Historical Office, the Pentagon, Feb. 28, 2020.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution,” George Mason University, Feb. 10, 2020.

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“After the Berlin Wall,” book talk, Hour of History podcast, episode 105, Dec. 14, 2019. https://www.hourofhistory.com/after-the-berlin-wall-with-hope-harrison-hoh-podcast-ep-105/

“The Fall of the Berlin Wall,” presentation on panel discussion, “The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Future of Democracy,” the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Dec. 5, 2019. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9011/

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk moderated by Marc Fischer, senior editor of the Washington Post, German ambassador’s residence, Washington, DC, Nov. 20, 2019.

“German Approaches to Remembering the Berlin Wall, 1989-2019,” American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC, Nov. 15, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC, Nov. 10, 2019.

“The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Thirty Years Later,” presentation and discussion with audience filmed live, the Newseum, Washington, DC, Nov. 9, 2019.

“German Memory of the Berlin Wall since 1989,” paper at symposium, “1989: Commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, Reflecting upon our Political Present,” BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Nov. 9, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, Washington History Seminar, the Wilson Center, Nov. 7, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book discussion, “Hot Topics Call,” American Council on Germany, Nov. 6, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, Elliott School Book Launch Series, The George Washington University, Nov. 5, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, German Marshall Fund, Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies and the Public History Program, Free University of Berlin, Oct. 30, 2019.

“Nach der Mauer: Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung nach 1989” (“After the Wall: Memory and Grappling with the Past since 1989”), book talk, Berlin Wall Memorial, Oct. 29, 2019. (in German)

“Thirty Years after the Berlin Wall: German Historical Memory and National Identity,” book talk, IDEAS, London School of Economics, Oct. 23, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, Oct. 22, 2019.

“German Battles over Remembering the Berlin Wall, 1989-2019,” symposium on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, University of Delaware at Newark, Oct. 17, 2019.

“After the Berlin Wall, 1989 to the Present,” book talk, International Center of the Capital Region and World Affairs Council of America, Albany Capital Center, Albany, NY, Oct. 11, 2019.

11 “After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” book discussion, “Cover to Cover” live phone call and podcast, World Affairs Council of America, Oct. 9, 2019. https://www.worldaffairscouncils.org/Programs/event.cfm?UserID=178

“After the Berlin Wall, 1989 to the Present,” presentation on panel discussion, “Zeitenwende (Changing Times) – Germany, Europe, and the United States 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Newseum, Washington, DC, Oct. 10, 2019.

“Remembering the Berlin Wall” presentation to panel discussion, “Germany since 1989: Do Differences Still Exist?” Pitt Virtual Roundtable, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, Oct. 8, 2019. https://youtu.be/PWMTtk7MRWU

“Setting the Context for the Berlin Airlift, 1945-49,” presentation at symposium, “Dawn of the Cold War: Looking Back at the Berlin Blockade and Airlift 70 Years after the Last American Flight,” The Spy Museum, Washington, DC, Sept. 23, 2019. (televised by C-SPAN https://www.c- span.org/video/?464577-1/berlin-airlift-70th-anniversary)

“After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present,” Krasno Global Affairs and Business Council Event Series, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sept. 12, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHiMd3H0a0

Keynote address, “‘Die Mauer muss weg!’ (‘The Wall must go!’): Remembering the Berlin Wall,” International Fulbright Conference on “Building Bridges through Exchange,” University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, May 18, 2019.

“Populism and German Collective Memory of the Berlin Wall,” workshop on “European Collective Memories in an Age of Populism,” BMW Center, Georgetown, Apr. 12, 2019.

“Memory Activists and the Commemoration of the Berlin Wall,” presentation to study group on historical authenticity, Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany, Nov. 13, 2018.

“Educating Americans (and others) about the History of Communism,” Victims of Communism Foundation, Washington, D.C., June 9, 2016.

“History and Politics of the 1915 Armenian Genocide,” public panel marking the centennial of the genocide, Jack Morton Auditorium, George Washington University, Sept. 21, 2015.

“The Fall of the Berlin Wall and its Legacy in Contemporary Germany” presentation on panel, “Before/After the Berlin Wall,” EU Delegation to Washington, D.C., European Month of Culture, NYU Washington, D.C., May 6, 2015.

“Relations between Germany and Russia Historically and Now,” presentation at panel discussion on US, British and German relations with Russia, Alfa Fellowship Program, St. Gregory Hotel, Washington, D.C., May 1, 2015.

“US-East German Relations in the Cold War Context,” presentation at panel discussion, “East Germany and the United States: A Non-Relationship?” German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Dec. 4, 2014. Joined a former US ambassador to East Germany and a former US chargé and Deputy Chief of Mission to East Berlin on the panel.

“The Berlin Wall 25 Years Later: The Decision to Build it in 1961; How it Fell in 1989; and How Germany has Remembered it,” large public lecture in school’s main auditorium, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, Nov. 19, 2014.

12 “The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Legacy of the Wall,” presentation on panel, “The Legacy of the Berlin Wall: Twenty-Five Years Later,” American University, School of International Service, November 13, 2014.

“The International and Domestic Contexts of the Fall of the Berlin Wall 25 Years Ago,” keynote address and then panel member, “25 Years after the Fall of the Wall—Personal Accounts,” The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the Willard InterContinental Hotel, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2014.

“The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall and its Historical Commemoration in Germany 25 Years Later,” The Berlin Historical Association, Berlin, Nov. 3, 2014.

“Die Gedenken an die Mauertoten und Geschichtspolitik” (“Commemorating People Killed at the Wall and the Politics of History”), presentation on panel at the Berlin premiere of “Die Familie” (“The Family”), a documentary film by Stefan Weinert about the family members of people who were killed at the Berlin Wall. Other panelists included the film maker, the mother of someone killed at the Wall, and the former chief state prosecutor in the trials against border guards who killed people at the Berlin Wall. Public event in the historic Volksbühne theater, Berlin, Nov. 2, 2014.

“Representing the Berlin Wall Historically and Artistically,” keynote address before symposium, “The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall,” and opening of art exhibit on the Berlin Wall, the Goethe Institute, Washington, D.C., October 25, 2014.

“Germans Remembering the Berlin Wall after 25 Years,” George Mason Univ., public lecture sponsored by History Department in cooperation with German embassy, Oct. 15, 2014.

“Incentives, Goals and Processes of Germany Reconciling with its Nazi and Communist Pasts,” presentation to symposium, “From Memory to Mending: Lessons for Eastern Europe from Germany’s Foreign Policy of Reconciliation,” The Kennan Institute, The Wilson Center, March 6, 2014.

“People, Propaganda and Policy in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall,” presentation to symposium on “A City Divided: Life and Death in the Shadow of the Wall,” the National Archives, National Declassification Center, Washington, D.C., January 14, 2014.

“Reconciling with the Past: The German Experience” and “Lessons and Legacies of the Cold War for Today,” lectures at the International Summer University for Intercultural Leadership, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 10-11, 2013.

“Reflections on Germany History and the Files of the former East German Leadership in the German Federal Archives 20 Years Later,” invited by the Bundesarchiv to speak at the ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the former East German archival records becoming part of the Federal Archives, Berlin, April 16, 2013.

“Yadegar Asisi’s Wall Panorama at Checkpoint Charlie as a Contribution to German Memory Culture on the Berlin Wall,” speech to press conference and VIP opening of Asisi’s Wall panorama, Berlin, Sept. 21, 2012.

“The Berlin Wall After 50 Years,” invited lecture at the Max Kade Center for German Studies, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Nov. 30, 2011.

“The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall: Perspectives on the Wall 50 Years After It was Built,” presentation to panel discussion (with Marianne Birthler, the former head of the Federal German Stasi Records Authority) on occasion of 50th anniversary of IERES, held at the Elliott School, George Washington University, Nov. 9, 2011.

13 “The Decision to Build the Berlin Wall,” presentation to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, panel on “The Berlin Crisis of 1961,” UVA Center for Politics, Charlottesville, VA, Nov. 2, 2011.

“Face the Wall/Gesicht zur Wand,” presentation to panel discussion about the film “Gesicht zur Wand” and about commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, sponsored by the Ebert Foundation, the German Historical Institute and the Goethe Institute, held at the Goethe Institute, Washington, D.C., Oct. 18, 2011.

“The Contested Legacy of the Berlin Wall,” presentation to the Washington History Seminar on Historical Perspectives on International and National Affairs, sponsored by the National History Center and the Wilson Center and held at the Wilson Center, Oct. 17, 2011.

“Ulbrichts Mauer” (“Ulbricht’s Wall”), presentation at public discussion in German “Chruschtschows Mauer oder Ulbrichts Mauer? Autorengespräch mit Hope M. Harrison und Manfred Wilke” (Khrushchev’s or Ulbricht’s Wall? A discussion with the authors Hope M. Harrison and Manfred Wilke), moderated by the director of the Allied Museum in Berlin, Dr. Gundula Bavendamm, held at the Allied Museum in Berlin, August 16, 2011. This was the opening discussion of a series of evening public lectures to accompany the new exhibit at the Allied Museum, “Like a Tinderbox: The Berlin Crisis and the Construction of the Wall.” (in German)

“Ulbrichts Mauer” (“Ulbricht’s Wall”), public book presentation in German at the “Museum in der ‘Runde Ecke’” (the Museum of the Round Corner, the former secret police headquarters and prison) Leipzig, as part of their program of events in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall, Leipzig, Germany, August 10, 2011. The other two presenters on other evenings were Germans: Manfred Wilke and Jens Schöne. (in German)

“The Cold War, the Division of Germany, and the Berlin Wall,” lecture to class at the Free University of Berlin, August 4, 2011.

“Ulbrichts Mauer” (“Ulbricht’s Wall”), presentation in German at public discussion, “Der Mauerbau: vier Autoren—vier Interpretationen” (“The Building of the Wall: Four Authors—Four Interpretations”), sponsored by the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Berlin State Authority on the Stasi Records and held at the Berlin Wall Memorial, July 27, 2011. The other three author-presenters were German: Gerhard Wettig, Manfred Wilke and Jens Schöne. (in German)

“Ulbrichts Mauer” (“Ulbricht’s Wall”), presentation in German at public discussion on “50 Jahre Mauerbau—Relativierung eines Traumas?” (“50 Years Since the Building of the Wall—the Relativization of a Trauma?”), together with Dr. Ines Geipel, Mr. Frauendorfer, and Joachim Walther, moderated by Dr. Norbert Seitz of Deutschlandfunk and held at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen former Stasi prison memorial, July 26, 2011, and broadcast on Deutschlandfunk on August 12, 2011. (in German)

“The Berlin Wall: Its Rise and Fall and Resurrection as a Site of Memory,” lecture to Jan-Werner Mueller’s Princeton University class in Berlin, “Memory, Democracy, and Public Culture: Berlin and Its Pasts,” Berlin, July 11, 2011.

“Ulbrichts Mauer” (“Ulbricht’s Wall”), public book presentation at the former Stasi prison at Lindenstrasse, moderated by Dr. Hans-Hermann Hertle, Potsdam, sponsored by the Lindenstrasse Memorial, the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam and the Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Germany, July 7, 2011. (in German)

“Ulbrichts Mauer” (“Ulbricht’s Wall”), public book presentation at the Potsdam Legal Society (Potsdamer Juristischen Gesellschaft), Potsdam, Germany, June 28, 2011. (in German)

14 “US Policy Toward Russia,” lecture to Europe/Eurasian class at the Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, VA, May 13, 2011.

“The US and Four Power Influence in Germany during the Cold War,” at public panel discussion, “Four Power Status and the Division of Berlin, Europe and the World,” Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, May 28, 2010.

“The Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory,” public lecture, Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, April 22, 2010. (in German)

“The Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory, 1989-2009,” in the “Writing Europe in the World” Seminar Series, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, Feb. 25, 2010.

“US-German-Russian Relations,” lecture to staffers of the Bundestag, at the Paul Loebe Haus parliamentary building, sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Dec. 16, 2009.

“Politics, History and the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall,” Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Dec. 3, 2009.

“Politics, History and the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall,” Amerika Haus, Munich, Dec. 2, 2009.

“The Construction and Fall of the Berlin Wall and its Resurrection as a Site of Memory in the last 20 Years,” public lecture, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Nov. 25, 2009. (in German)

“Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and US-German-Russian Relations,” invited address at the governor’s office of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Nov. 24, 2009.

“An American Perspective on the Fall of the Wall: Why it was Built, Why it Fell, and the Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory in the last 20 Years,” public lecture, Dresden City Museum, Nov. 5, 2009. (in German)

“The Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory,” Free University of Berlin, Oct. 29, 2009.

“Expect the Unexpected: Thoughts on the US, the fall of the Wall, and German Unification,” commencement address to the graduating MA class in American Studies of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, Oct. 20, 2009.

“US-German-Russian Relations,” Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin, Oct. 8, 2009.

“Contemporary German Debates about Depicting the Berlin Wall and the East German Communist Regime in Berlin,” lectures presented at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; Sciences Po, Paris, France; and the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England, May 2007.

“East Germany in Fritz Stern’s Five Germanys I Have Known,” panelist on “The Five Germanys He Has Known: Symposium in Honor of Fritz Stern,” organized by the American Institute for Contemporary Germany Studies, Westin Embassy Row, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2007.

“The Past Present and Future of the Berlin Wall: How the Germans Are Dealing with the History of Division and the Communist Past,” the Vincent DeSantis lecture in Modern European History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, March 9, 2006.

"Policymaking at the National Security Council," talk given at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Oslo, and the University of Heidelberg, Spring 2004.

15 "Driving the Soviet Up the Wall," book talk, given in many places in the US and Europe, Fall 2003- Summer 2004, including in Germany the American Academy in Berlin, the University of Potsdam, the University of Cottbus, and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History), Berlin; the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo; the University of Florence and the University of Roma Tre in Italy; Sciences Po in Paris; the London School of Economics; the Harriman Institute at Columbia, the American Council on Germany, the Davis Center at Harvard and the International Spy Museum in Washington; and in Canada the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

"The New Cold War History," lecture at National War College, February 20, 2003.

"Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process," Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, October 19, 2001.

A series of lectures on Germany and the Cold War at the "Cold War Summer School" for professors of Russian regional universities, Saratov Russia, July 1-10, 2001. Sponsored by the Soros Foundation, the National Security Archive, Saratov State University, and the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

DISCUSSANT/MODERATOR at policy-related events With Ambassadors Wolfgang Ischinger and Robert Kimmitt, discussing Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German foreign policy and German unification, German Marshall Fund, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2016.

With German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, discussing transatlantic relations, Jack Morton Auditorium, George Washington University, March 1, 2016. (televised by C-SPAN-- https://www.c-span.org/video/?405767-1/german-foreign-affairs-minister-frank-walter-steinmeier- transatlantic-partnership)

With Matthias Platzeck, former governor of the state of Brandenburg, Germany, discussing the fall of the Berlin Wall, German unification, and the 2015 refugee crisis, the Elliott School, George Washington Univ., Sept. 30, 2015.

With Czech Minister of Culture Daniel Herman, Hungarian Ambassador György Szapary, German diplomat Toralf Pilz, and others, discussing 25th anniversary of fall of Iron Curtain, the Elliott School, George Washington Univ., Nov. 17, 2014.

With German diplomats Rüdiger Bohn and Maria Adebahr, discussing documentary film, “Liberty Train, Next Stop Freedom,” Wilson Center, Oct. 10, 2014.

With Constanze Stelzenmueller and Daniela Schwartzer of the German Marshall Fund (Berlin), discussing transatlantic relations, NSA, Russia and Ukraine, the Wilson Center, May 8, 2014.

With former German Ambassador to the U.S., Klaus Scharioth, discussing Germany, Russia and Ukraine, the Wilson Center, March 21, 2014.

With Hans-Ulrich Klose, Bundestag member and Deputy Chair of Foreign Relations Committee, discussing German foreign policy and transatlantic relations, the Elliott School, George Washington University, May 6, 2013.

With Hans-Ulrich Klose, Bundestag member and Deputy Chair of Foreign Relations Committee, discussing Germany, the transatlantic partnership and the global agenda, the Wilson Center, Feb. 10, 2013.

16 With Bundestag members Hans-Ulrich Klose and Niels Annen, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, “Around the World in 80 Minutes: What Germans Think and Americans Want to Know,” Washington, D.C., March 10, 2009.

MEDIA APPEARANCES AND MEDIA CONSULTING, including podcasts “Rise Up: The Berlin Wall,” Vice. Fall 2020, forthcoming.

“30th Anniversary of German Unification,” Deutsche Welle, October 2, 2020, forthcoming.

“The Brandenburg Gate,” ZDF documentary, Fall 2020, forthcoming.

New Books in German Studies, New Books Network, podcast on book, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, July 6, 2020. https://newbooksnetwork.com/hope-m-harrison-after-the-berlin-wall-memory-and-the-making-of-the- new-germany-1989-to-the-present-cambridge-up-2019/

“War Factories” series, Yesterday Channel, UK. 2020.

Hour of History podcast on book, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, December 14, 2019. https://www.hourofhistory.com/after-the-berlin- wall-with-hope-harrison-hoh-podcast-ep-105/

“Germany 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Wilson Center NOW video series, Nov. 14, 2019. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/germany-30-years-after-the-fall-the-berlin-wall

30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, live televised call-in show, recorded at the Newseum in front of segments of the Wall, Washington Journal, C-SPAN, Nov. 9, 2019. https://www.c- span.org/video/?466056-2/washington-journal-news-headlines-viewer- calls&event=466056&playEvent

“Building a New Germany after the Fall of the Wall,” KCRW radio, Studio Berlin, Nov. 9, 2019. https://kcrwberlin.com/2019/11/studio-berlin-broadcast-november-9-2019-building-a-new-germany- after-the-fall-of-the-wall/

30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, talkRADIO London, Nov. 7, 2019.

30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Voice of America television, “Plugged In with Greta van Susteren,” November 6, 2019. https://www.voanews.com/episode/berlin-wall-30-years-after-fall- 4084131

30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, BBC Spanish, Oct. 24, 2019.

La Tercera (Santiago, Chile), featured expert on the fall of the Berlin Wall, Valentina Jofré y Fernando Fuentes, “1989: A tres décadas de un año que remecio al mundo,” June 10, 2019. https://www.latercera.com/mundo/noticia/1989-tres-decadas-ano-remecio-al-mundo/691854/

New York Times, featured expert on Checkpoint Charlie, Melissa Eddy, “At Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War History confronts Crass Commercialism,” February 4, 2019.

The Discovery Channel-Science Channel, “What on Earth?” series, featured expert on topics concerning 20th century international history and the Cold War, 2017-2019.

Deutschlandradio, commentary on US midterm elections, Nov. 7, 2018. (in German)

17 History Channel, feared expert on Berlin airlift, Sarah Pruitt, “Why the Berlin Airlift was the First Major Battle of the Cold War,” June 27, 2018.

Khaleej Times (Dubai, UAE), featured expert on contemporary Germany, Jon Can Housen & Mariella Radaelli, “Germany is still discovering the cost of unity,” February 19, 2018.

ZDF (Germany), featured expert in documentary film, “Magische Sätze des 20. Jahrhunderts” (“Magical Sentences of 20th Century History”), Sept. 10, 2017.

USA Today, quoted as expert in articles by John Bacon on Russia and Germany, Jan. 11, Feb. 8, March 27, 2017.

CNN, commentator on US-Russian/Trump-Putin relations, Feb. 1, 2017.

CNN, commentator on US-Russian/Trump-Putin relations, Oct. 18, 2016.

CCTV (China), commentator on renewed fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Apr. 4, 2016.

CNN International, commentator on renewed fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Apr. 3, 2016.

CCTV, commentator on state elections in Germany, March 14, 2016.

Deutsche Welle, commentator on death of former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Nov. 10, 2015.

VOA Russia service, commentator on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, April 2015.

Katharina Fiedler, “Kreuzbergs Mauer steht jetzt in den USA,” (“Kreuzberg’s Wall stands in the US now”) Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 9, 2014. The Berlin newspaper, Tagesspiegel, did a story on my experience with the Berlin Wall and on my class, “The Two Germanys and the Cold War” and our video project on commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bezirke/friedrichshain-kreuzberg/mauerfall-gedenken-in- washington-dc-kreuzbergs-mauer-steht-jetzt-in-den-usa/10954512.html

Gedächnis der Nation: Zeitzeugen erinnern sich an 100 Jahre deutsche Geschichte (Memory of the Nation: Eye Witnesses Remember 100 Years of German History), Germany (equivalent of the Library of Congress’ StoryCorps), 2014 interview with me on my experiences in Berlin when the Wall fell. http://www.gedaechtnis-der-nation.de/erleben (in German)

CNN International, Berlin, Nov. 9, 2014, commentator on the German celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

ZDF (Germany), historical consultant and featured expert on prime-time documentary about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, “Kennedy—Das Geheimnis der letzten Tagen” (“Kennedy—The Secret of the Last Days”), November 12, 2013.

ORF radio (Austria), commentary on transatlantic relations in wake of NSA surveillance in Germany, Oct. 28, 2013

Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), commentary on transatlantic relations in wake of NSA surveillance, Oct. 2013.

Radio, television and newspaper interviews and references to my German book Ulbricht’s Mauer in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Aljazeera.net, Die Welt, Bayernkurier (Munich), ARD radio Länge Sieben Kulturmagazin Saarbrücken, 3sat Kulturzeit TV, VOX for Spiegel-TV,

18 Deutschlandradio, and Deutschlandfunk, spring-summer 2011. For interview in Die Welt, see https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/politik/article13538417/Eine-deutsche-Angelegenheit.html

Reviews of the book appeared in Germany in spring-summer 2011 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), Tagesspiegel (Berlin), Die Zeit (Hamburg), Berliner Zeitung (Berlin), Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (Hannover), Deutschlandradio (Berlin and Cologne), Inforadio (Berlin), Berliner Morgenpost, Frankfurter Rundschau (Frankfurt), Südkurier (Konstanz), Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Bonn), Die Welt (Germany), B.Z. (Berlin), pm-magazin History (Munich), Märkische Allgemeine (Potsdam), SWR 2 Forum Buch radio (Stuttgart), Neues Deutschland (Berlin), Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (Bonn), Cicero (Berlin), Tip (Berlin), Der Neue Tag (Weiden),Die Entscheidung (Berlin), Junge Freiheit (Berlin), dpa (deutsche Pressagentur), Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten (Dresden), Osterländer Volkszeitung (Leipzig), Leipziger Volkszeitung (Leipzig), Kieler Nachrichten (Kiel), Nürnberger Nachrichten (Nuremburg), Nürnberger Zeitung, Nordkurier (Neubrandenburg), Hanauer Anzeiger (Hanau), Oberhessische Presse (Marburg), Hörzu TV magazine (Hamburg), Westfälische Anzeiger (Hamm) Die Tagespost (Würzburg), Hamburger Abendblatt (Hamburg), Sächsische Zeitung (Dresden). There were also reviews of the book in Switzerland in the Neue Züricher Zeitung (Zurich) and in Austria in the Wiener Zeitung (Vienna) and the Kleine Zeitung (Graz).

Spiegel-TV, historical consultant for and featured expert on four-hour documentary on Germany, the Berlin Wall and the Cold War, “50 Jahre Mauerbau” (“50 Years Since the Building of the Wall”), which aired on VOX-TV on the night of the 50th anniversary, August 13, 2011.

Deutschlandradio, 90-minute solo live interview in German, Zwischentöne program with Joachim Scholl, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

C-SPAN, “The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, live interview via telephone from Berlin, Nov. 9, 2009.

CNN, “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” commentator on US-Russian relations, Feb. 12, 2007.

CNN, “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” commentator on US-Russian relations, May 4, 2006.

BBC World News TV, commentator on German elections, live, Sept. 19, 2005.

The History Channel, “Man, Moment Machine. Shot Down: The U-2 Spy Plane,” featured expert on US-Soviet relations, Aug. 30, 2005.

The History Channel, “Declassified: The Rise and Fall of the Wall,” featured expert on Berlin Wall, Nov. 8, 2004.

C-SPAN, Book-TV, “Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Behind-the-Scenes of the Berlin Crisis,” book presentation at the International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2004.

“Tauben in Moskau, Falken in ost-Berlin. Eine amerikanische Studie belegt: Ulbricht setzte den Bau der Berliner Mauer gegen den Willen der Russen durch” (“Doves in Moscow, Hawks in East Berlin. An American Study Shows: Ulbricht carried out the building of the Berlin Wall against the will of the Russians”), article and interview by Ingo Bach about Driving the Soviets up the Wall, in Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Feb. 19, 2004.

The History Channel, “JFK: A Presidency Revealed,” featured expert, Nov. 16, 2003.

WTOP radio, interview on book, Driving the Soviets up the Wall, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2003.

C-SPAN TV, "Washington Journal," historical expert on Berlin Wall, one-hour, sole guest, live, call- in show, 9:10-10:10am, Aug. 16, 2003.

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C-SPAN TV, "Washington Journal," historical expert on Stalin and his legacy, one- hour, sole guest, live, call-in show, 9:10-10:10am, April 5, 2003.

Consultant for the German documentary film by Ullrich Kasten and Hans-Hermann Hertle, Es geschah im August. Der Bau der Berliner Mauer (It happened in August. The Building of the Berlin Wall), a co-production of SFB, ORB, SWR, WDR, ARTE, TNM and Doculand in Berlin, 2001.

"How the Wall was Built," 29-minute radio interview on the Woodrow Wilson Center's radio program, "Dialogue," broadcast on Public Radio International stations nationally the week of Dec. 21- 27, 1998.

Patrik Schwarz, interview with Hope M. Harrison, "`Oh, nein, Ulbricht ist am Telefon!' Wer war schuld am Mauerbau? Die US-Historikerin Hope M. Harrison hat in früheren Geheimarchiven in Moskau und Berlin nach Antworten gesucht. Nicht Chruschtschow wollte die Mauer, sondern Ulbricht" ("`Oh, no, Ulbricht is on the Phone!' Who was to blame for the building of the wall? The US-historian Hope M. Harrison searched for answers in previously secret archives in Moscow and Berlin. It wasn't Khrushchev who wanted the wall, but Ulbricht"), die tageszeitung (Berlin), December 14, 1998.

CNN, Cold War series, consultant and analyst appearing on the “Postscript” for episodes one, "Comrades" (September 27, 1998) on 1917-1945, and nine, "Mousetrap" (November 22, 1998), on the building of the Berlin Wall.

REVIEWER OF ARTICLES AND BOOKS Brill Cambridge University Press Cold War History German Politics and Society h-diplo History: Reviews of New Books International Security Journal of Cold War Studies Journal of Contemporary History Journal of Tourism History Left History Oxford University Press sehepunkte Slavic Review Stanford University Press Washington Post

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP • Brill Publishers, book series, “New Perspectives on the Cold War,” 2015-present. • German Politics and Society, Dec. 2014-present. • h-diplo, 2009-present.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Council on Germany (ACG) American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Atlantik-Brücke German Studies Association (GSA) Memory Studies Association (MSA)

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LANGUAGE SKILLS German: Fluent Russian: Fluent (albeit latent due to not much use)

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