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Dr. Hope M. Harrison Hope M. Harrison published a prize-winning book in 2003 on the East German and Soviet decision to build the Berlin Wall: Driving the Soviets up the Wall (Princeton University Press). An expanded and updated version of the book (Ulbrichts Mauer) was published in Germany in 2011 to glowing reviews.
Co-founder and co-director of GW's Cold War Group, she is fluent in German and Russian and has worked extensively in archives in Moscow and Berlin.
Her latest book to be published in October/November by Cambridge University Press examines the Berlin Wall as a contested site of memory in Germany from 1989-2019. After the Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present.
Hope has also published a variety of articles on the Cold War, Germany and Russia and has been invited to speak in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Prof. Harrison has directed the Elliott School’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (2005-2009) and the Program on Conducting Archival Research (2001-2011). She served as the Associate Dean for Research of the Elliott School from fall 2015- winter 2016. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, and the American Institute for Contemporary Germany Studies. In Berlin, she is a member of the Atlantik-Brücke and the Berlin Wall Memorial Association and serves on the boards of the Allied Museum, the Cold War Center, and the Foundation for German-American Academic Relations. Dr. Harrison has appeared as an expert on Cold War History, Russia and Germany on CNN, C-SPAN, the History Channel, the Science Channel, the BBC, Deutschlandradio (Germany), CCTV (China), Voice of America (Russia), and elsewhere.
She has received fellowships from Fulbright, the American Academy in Berlin, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Wilson Center, the Davis Center at Harvard University, the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Institute for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
From 2000-2001, Professor Harrison served at the National Security Council as Director of European and Eurasian Affairs at the White House under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Among the issues she focused on were the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh (for which Dr. Harrison served as the White House representative), the reconciliation process between Turkey and Armenia, and Georgian ties with the U.S. and Russia.
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Dr. Hope M. Harrison Hope M. Harrison published a prize-winning book in 2003 on the East German and Soviet decision to build the Berlin Wall: Driving the Soviets up the Wall (Princeton University Press). An expanded and updated version of the book (Ulbrichts Mauer) was published in Germany in 2011 to glowing reviews.
Co-founder and co-director of GW's Cold War Group, she is fluent in German and Russian and has worked extensively in archives in Moscow and Berlin.
Her latest book to be published in October/November by Cambridge University Press examines the Berlin Wall as a contested site of memory in Germany from 1989-2019. After the Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present.
Hope has also published a variety of articles on the Cold War, Germany and Russia and has been invited to speak in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Prof. Harrison has directed the Elliott School’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (2005-2009) and the Program on Conducting Archival Research (2001-2011). She served as the Associate Dean for Research of the Elliott School from fall 2015- winter 2016. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, and the American Institute for Contemporary Germany Studies. In Berlin, she is a member of the Atlantik-Brücke and the Berlin Wall Memorial Association and serves on the boards of the Allied Museum, the Cold War Center, and the Foundation for German-American Academic Relations. Dr. Harrison has appeared as an expert on Cold War History, Russia and Germany on CNN, C-SPAN, the History Channel, the Science Channel, the BBC, Deutschlandradio (Germany), CCTV (China), Voice of America (Russia), and elsewhere.
She has received fellowships from Fulbright, the American Academy in Berlin, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Wilson Center, the Davis Center at Harvard University, the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Institute for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
From 2000-2001, Professor Harrison served at the National Security Council as Director of European and Eurasian Affairs at the White House under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Among the issues she focused on were the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh (for which Dr. Harrison served as the White House representative), the reconciliation process between Turkey and Armenia, and Georgian ties with the U.S. and Russia.
For more videos in the Krasno Events Series, please check out: youtube.com/user/KrasnoUNC For other similar events, please check out: krasnoevents.com For updates and notifications, follow us on Twitter @KrasnoEventsUNC
