About the Authors
Muriel Blaive is currently Advisor to the Director for Research and Methodology at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague. She is a socio-political historian of postwar, communist, and post-communist Central Europe, in particular of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. She graduated from the Institut d’études politiques in Paris and wrote her Ph.D. in history at EHESS in Paris. Among her publications are “Komárno, the Flagship of Symbolic Politics at the Slovak-Hungarian Border,” Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, 44.4 (2013) (with Libora Oates-Indruchová), and “Discussing the Merits of Microhistory as a Comparative Tool: The Cases of České Velenice and Komárno,” East Central Europe 40.1-2 (2013). She also co-edited the volume Clashes in European Memory: The Case of the Communist Repression and the Holocaust (2011), with Christian Gerbel and Thomas Lindenberger.
Paul Bleton has been professor at TELUQ University (Montréal) for more than 30 years. He published around 20 handbooks and has been conceiving courses in e-learning. He authored essays on reading, on French conception of the American Wild West, and many articles on French pop lit. He co-authored essays, on African war fictions, and on Louis Hémon.
Christoph Classen studied history, German Studies and media studies at Hamburg University and holds a Ph.D. in contemporary history from Freie Universität Berlin. Currently he is a senior researcher at the “Department for the History of the Modern Media and Information Society” at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam. He is an editor for media history and contemporary history of “H-Soz-Kult,” as well as “Zeitgeschichte-online,” and a member of the editorial board of “VIEW – Journal of European Television History and Culture.” His main areas of research are the history of media, cultures of remembrance, and political cultures.
Wayne Cocroft is an archaeologist and Manager of Historic England’s Investigation East team. For over 20 years he has specialized in the archaeological recording and assessment of redundant military sites. He is co-author of Cold War Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989 (2003) and recently Der Teufelsberg in Berlin: Eine archäologische Bestandsaufnahme des westlichen Horchpostens im Kalten Krieg (2016). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Jennifer Dickey is an associate professor and the coordinator of the Public History Program at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She has a master’s degree in heritage preservation and a Ph.D. in public history from Georgia State University. She is the author of A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory, co-editor of Museums in a Global Context: National Identity, International Understanding, and co-author of Memories of the Mansion: The Story of Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion.
Andreas Etges is senior lecturer in American history at the Amerika-Institut of the University of Munich with a special focus on American foreign relations and the history of the Cold War. He has curated several historical exhibits on John F. Kennedy and is involved in setting up an international museum of the Cold War at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. Among his publications are “Western Europe,” in: Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (2013), and “Krieg in Europa im amerikanischen Film,” in: Geschichte ohne Grenzen? Europäische Dimensionen der Militärgeschichte vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute (2016), edited by Jörg Echternkamp and Hans-Hubertus Mack. He is a member of both the steering committee of the International Federation for Public History and the German working group on public history.
Sybille Frank is Professor for Urban Sociology and the Sociology of Space at the Department of Sociology, Technical University Darmstadt. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the same university. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), the Priority Research Area Critical Heritage Studies at Göteborg’s Universitet, the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation in Melbourne, and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. In 2016, she was La Sapienza Visiting Professor for Research Activities at Università di Roma La Sapienza as well as City of Vienna Visiting Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space at Technical University Vienna. Her work focuses on urban sociology, on the sociology of space and place, and on tourism and heritage studies.
Hope M. Harrison is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the Elliott School at George Washington University. She has published on the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and German historical memory. Her prize-winning first book, Driving the Soviets Up the Wall, made extensive use of German and Russian archives to tell the story of the decision to build the Berlin Wall. Her next book, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, examines German historical memory of the Berlin Wall since 1989. She has held research fellowships in Germany, Russia, the US and Norway.
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