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Hope M. Harrison Professor of History & International Affairs the Elliott 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
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