Das Historische Buch 2007

Asst. Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Eckert

Assistant Professor of Modern German History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Lebenslauf

Education:

1999-2002: Free University of Berlin, Ph.D. in History (2003), summa cum laude
1998-1999: Yale University, Visiting Research Fellow, Fox International Fellowship
1994-1995: University of Michigan, M.A. (1995), Major Field: American History
1991-1998: Free University of Berlin, M.A. (1998), Major Fields: Modern European History and American History

Academic Appointments:

Since Jan. 2006: Assistant Professor of Modern German History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Fall 2002-Fall 2005: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Research Related Awards and Fellowships:

2007: Faculty International Travel Grant, Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS), Emory University
2005: Honorable citation at H-Soz-u-Kult book award "History Books 2004" (category Award of the H-Soz-u-Kult Audience)
2005: Tenth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 19-July 1, 2005
2004: Hedwig Hintze Prize of the German Historical Association, awarded every two years for the best dissertation in history
2004: Friedrich Meinecke Prize for best dissertation in the History Department of the Free University of Berlin
2000-2002: German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung) Dissertation Grant
2000: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Dissertation Research Grant
2000: German Historical Institute, London, Dissertation Research Grant
1998-1999: Fox International Fellowship, Yale University
1994-1995: Fulbright Fellowship
1993-1998: Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship

Publications and Work in Progress

Books and Work in Progress:

• Battle for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of Capture German Archives after World War II, Cambridge University Press (in preparation).
• Kampf um die Akten. Die Westalliierten und die Rückgabe von deutschem Archivgut nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004).
• Feindbilder im Wandel. Ein Vergleich des Deutschland- und des Japanbildes in den USA 1945 und 1946 (Münster: Lit, 1999).

Edited Collections:

• Institutions of Public Memory: The Legacies of German and American Politicians (Washington, D. C.: German Historical Institute/Sheridan Press, 2007).
• Das Deutsche Archivwesen und der Nationalsozialismus, hg. fuer den Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare von Robert Kretzschmar in Zusammenarbeit mit Astrid M. Eckert, Heiner Schmitt, Dieter Speck, Klaus Wisotzky (Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006).
• Der Holocaust und die westdeutschen Historiker. Eine Debatte, eds., Astrid M. Eckert and Vera Ziegeldorf (Berlin: Clio-online, 2004).

Articles and Chapters:

• "The Transnational Beginnings of West German Zeitgeschichte in the 1950s," Central European History 40:2 (forthcoming June 2007).
• "'Im Fegefeuer der Entbräunung'. Deutsche Archivare auf dem Weg in den Nachkrieg," in Das deutsche Archivwesen und der Nationalsozialismus, ed. by Robert Kretzschmer, Astrid M. Eckert, Heiner Schmitt, Dieter Speck, Klaus Wisotzky (Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006), 422-444.
• "Zur Einführung: Archive und Archivare im Nationalsozialismus," in Das deutsche Archivwesen und der Nationalsozialismus, 9-17.
• "Bundesdeutsche Souveränität und die Rückgabe der diplomatischen Akten," APuZ - Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 17/2005 (25 April 2005): 24-30.
• "'...[a]nd grant German and foreign scholars access at all times': Archival Access in West Germany 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.
• "Glasplatten im märkischen Sand: Ein Beitrag zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der Tageseinträge und Diktate von Joseph Goebbels," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 52 (2004): 479-526 (with Stefan Martens).
• "American History in Germany: The View of the Practitioners," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 32 (Spring 2003): 51-84.
• "Homo Politicus vs. Homo Academicus: Der amtliche Historiker im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Regierungsauftrag und historischer 'Objektivität'," Francia 29 (2002): 119-123.
• "Hinter den Kulissen der Rückgabediplomatie. Interne Positionen der Briten und Amerikaner zur Rückgabe deutschen Schriftguts in den 1950er Jahren," Archive und Herrschaft. Referate des 72. Deutschen Archivtags. 18. – 21. September 2001 in Cottbus. Veranstaltet vom Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare (Der Archivar. Beiband 7) (Siegburg: VdA, 2002), 107-117.
• "Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act - Aktenfreigaben in den National Archives, Washington, D.C.," in H-Soz-Kult (June 30, 2000), http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/BEITRAG/essays/ecas0600.htm

Selected Conference Papers and Invited Lectures:

2007:

• Commentary to the Panel "German-American Historiography since the 1930s: Some New Views", German Studies Association (GSA), San Diego, September 2007.
• "Notwendige Kooperation: Westdeutsche Zeitgeschichte als transnationales Projekt in den 1950er Jahren," Colloquium on "The Return of the German Historical Profession into the International Scientific Community after 1945," convened by the German Historical Institute Paris, July 5 and 6, 2007.
• "Turning Presence into History: Writing German Contemporary History after the Second World War," Lockmiller Seminar, Department of History, Emory University, March 19, 2007.

2006

• "German Archivists and National Socialism". Lecture and seminar discussion at the German Archives School in Marburg, June 6, 2006.

2005

• "'Im Fegefeuer der Entbräunung': Deutsche Archivare auf dem Weg in den Nachkrieg," 75th Deutscher Archivtag: Deutsche Archive und Archivare im Nationalsozialismus und Nachkrieg, Stuttgart, Germany (Sept. 27-29, 2005).
• Closing Roundtable Discussion (invited participant), 75th Deutscher Archivtag: Deutsche Archive und Archivare im Nationalsozialismus und Nachkrieg, Stuttgart, Germany (Sept. 27-29, 2005).
• "Managing Their Own Past: German Archivists between Nazism and Democracy," Second International 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 Old Northwest," 27th Annual Meeting of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies "American Historiography: Approaches, Issues, Controversies," Stiftung Leucorea, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 11-13 February 2005.

2004

• "The Transnational Beginnings of German Zeitgeschichte after the Second World War," Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar, George Mason University, Washington, D. C., Nov. 13, 2004.
• "The History Makers: German Archivists in the Immediate Postwar Period," 118th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 8-11, 2004).

Professional Service:

2007: Member of the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize Committee, awarded annually by The Friends of the German Historical Institute (President: Gerald Feldman, Berkeley)
German Studies Association (since 2004: member of GSA Archives Committee)
Since 2006: Member of the Steering Committee South-Eastern German Studies Workshop (to be held for the first time March 2008 at Univ. South Carolina, Columbia, SC)
2006-09: Member of the Parker-Schmidt-Simpson Dissertation Award Selection Committee, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association
Since 2004: Archives Committee, German Studies Association (GSA)
2000-02: Selection Committee, German Fulbright Commission

Professional Associations:

American Historical Association
German Studies Association (since 2004: member of GSA Archives Committee)
Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
Southern Historical Association - European Section
Conference Group on Central European History (CGCEH)