Hope M. Harrison
Institute for European, Russian, & Eurasian StudiesPhone: (202)994-5439
ElliottSchool of International AffairsFax: (202) 994-5436
1957 E. St., N.W., Suite
GeorgeWashingtonUniversity
Washington, D.C.20052
CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Department of History and the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, August 1999-present (promoted to Associate Prof. with tenure, May 2004). Teach undergraduate and graduate courses on the cold war, Germany in the cold war, international affairs, Soviet foreign policy, and the uses and misuses of history in international affairs; and advise graduates and undergraduates on their theses. (on sabbatical leave, fall 2011)
Public Policy Fellow, History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., September-December 2011. (Phone: 202-691-4002)
Chair, Advisory Council, Kennan Institute, WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenter for Scholars, 2008-2012.
Member of the Governing Board, Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, May 2010-present.
Founding Member of the Governing Board and the International Advisory Board, Cold War Center: Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, May 2010-present.
GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Director, 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, ColumbiaUniversity, 1993.
M.PHIL., Political Science, ColumbiaUniversity, 1991.
CERTIFICATE, The Harriman Institute, ColumbiaUniversity, 1991.
B.A., Social Studies, HarvardUniversity, 1985.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Director, Program on Conducting Archival Research, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity. 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, LafayetteCollege, September 1995-August 1999. Taught courses on the cold war, German foreign policy, Russian foreign policy, Russian and East European politics, international politics, and international conflict.
Lecturer in Politics, BrandeisUniversity, September 1994-May 1995. Taught seminars on German and Russian foreign policy, and introductory courses on international relations and on international political economy to both undergraduate and graduate students.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
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), Propyläen Verlag, 2011, expanded and updated German edition of my 2003 book.
Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2003). Winner, 2004 Marshall Shulman prize for best book on international affairs/foreign policy of former Soviet bloc, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“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. This publication is a monthly supplement to the weekly newspaper published by the German Bundestag, Das Parlament, and has a circulation of 70,000.
“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 entire 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 und der Bau der Mauer” (“Walter Ulbricht and the Building of the Wall”),Deutschland Archiv 44 (2011, special issue on 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall), pp. 15-22.
“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”),Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for Historical Research on Communism), XVII (2011), no. 24, pp. 281-297.
“A ColdWarMuseum 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.
"`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," Cold War International History Project Bulletin, No. 11 (Winter 1998).
"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.
"New Evidence on Khrushchev's 1958 Berlin Ultimatum," translation and commentary, Bulletin of the Cold War International History Project, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 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," Working Paper No. 5 of the Cold War International History Project, the WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenter for Scholars, May 1993.
"Inside the SED Archives: A Researcher's Diary," Bulletin of the Cold War International History Project, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., Issue 2, Fall 1992, pp. 20, 28-32.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
“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 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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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 TowardGermany 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 Kholodnaya Voina. Novyie Podkhodyi, Novyie Dokumentyi (The Cold War. New Approaches, New Documents), ed. by I.V. Gaiduk, M.L. Korobochkin, M.M. Narinsky and A.O. Chubarian (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.
PUBLICATIONS IN THE MEDIA
“Saving the Berlin Wall: reconstructing a deconstructed history,” Forbes.com, Nov. 3, 2009,
“Bis 1961 mauerte Moskau” (“Moscow Stonewalled until 1961"), Welt am Sonntag (largest circulation Sunday newspaper in Germany), op-ed, August 8, 2004.
"Conflict in Soviet bloc created Berlin Wall, not the Cold War," The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), August 13, 1996 (opinion editorial).
"Zwei Männer und ein Machtkampf" ("Two Men and a Power Struggle"), Berliner Zeitung, August 10, 1996.
WEB PUBLICATIONS
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),
“Berlin” section of the website, “The Cold War Files: Interpreting History Through Documents,” a website created by the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the GW Cold War Group with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005.
AWARDS
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2004 Marshall Shulman Prize for book, Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 (Princeton University Press, 2003).
American Council on Germany, Young Leader, 2003.
SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Public Policy Fellow, History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., September-December 2011.
Fulbright Senior Fellowship, September 2009-May 2010, Berlin, Germany. Guest Researcher at the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (German Federal Foundation for Reappraising the East German Dictatorship).
Mellon Foundation, Principal Investigator, three-year, $330,000 grant to run a Program on Conducting Archival Research to train doctoral students from the US and abroad in conducting historical archival research, 2008-2011.
Mellon Foundation, Principal Investigator, two-year, $50,000 grant to run an annual Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research, 2006-2008.
AmericanAcademy in Berlin, George H.W. Bush Fellow, Spring 2004.
Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellow at the National Security Council as a Director 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 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Research Scholarship, Washington, D.C., June-December 1998.
LafayetteCollege, Junior Faculty Leave award, spring 1999.
Cold War International History Project, research grant, summer 1996.
RussianResearchCenter, HarvardUniversity, 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, HarvardUniversity, pre-doctoral fellowship, 1989-1991.
W. Averell Harriman Institute Junior Fellowship, Columbia University, 1989-1993.
SELECTED RESEARCH POSITIONS (in addition to those listed above)
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 Research), Potsdam, Germany, November 2004.
Fellow,RussianResearchCenter, Harvard University, 1994-5.
Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1992-1993.
Research Fellow, Institute of the USACanada, Moscow, June-July, 1992.
Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, USSRAcademy of Sciences, Moscow, September-October, 1990.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS
“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 opening of conference at the Berlin Wall Memorial, “Der Mauerbau 1961: Kalter Krieg, Deutsche Teilung, Berlin” (“The Building of the Wall in 1961: The Cold War, the Division of Germany, Berlin”) June 15, 2011.
“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 all of these sites, May 28-29, 2010.
“The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the Berlin Wall as a Site of Memory,” annual European Fulbright conference,Park Hotel, Berlin, March 24, 2010.
“The US and German Unification, 1989-1990,” in German, 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.
“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.
“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 theEast 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 DavisCenter, 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,” GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, 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 at an international symposium, "On Both Sides of the Wall: Preserving Monuments of the Cold War Era," CecilienhofPalace, 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, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, June 6-7, 2003.
"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, 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.)