Publications

Resistance with the People: Repression and Resistance in Eastern Germany 1945-1955 in (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). 288 pages. My book appeared in hardcover in 2003 and came out in paperback in the fall of 2005. It is the second volume in the Harvard Cold War Project Book Series and is available through the publisher's Website or online booksellers like amazon.com.

• "Access to Secret Police Files, Vetting, and Justice in East Germany since 1989," German Politics and Society 26.1 (2008): 82-111

• "Aufklärung and Abwehr: The Lasting Legacy of the Stasi under Ernst Wollweber," Intelligence and National Security   21.3 (2006): 364-393.

• “ ‘In our District, the State is Secure:’ The East German Secret Police Response to the Events of 1989 in Perleberg District,” Contemporary European History 14. 2 (2005):  219-244.

•  “The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany: Stasi Operations and Threat Perceptions, 1945-1953.” Journal of Cold War Studies 5.2 (2003): 3-31.

•  “Update on the Stasi archives.” Cold War International History Project Bulletin #12/13 (2001):  348-350.

Chapters in books_____________________________________________________________

• " 'Wir haben den Kontakt zu den Massen nie verloren': Das Verhältnis zwischen Stasi und Gesellschaft am Beispiel der Kreise Perleberg und Gransee" in Jens Gieseke, Staatssicherheit und Gesellschaft: Studien zum Herrschaftsalltag in der DDR (Gottingen: 2007), 365-379

• “Die Sowjetunion und die ostdeutschen Krisen 1953 bis 1961” in Torsten Diedrich ed, Staatsgründung auf Raten? Zu den Auswirkungen des Volksaufstandes 1953 und des Mauerbaus 1961 auf Staat, Militär und Gesellschaft in der DDR (Berlin: Ch. Links, 2005) 39-64

• "The Revolutionary Potential of GDR Society in the 1950s” in After the GDR: New Perspectives on the Old GDR and the New Länder (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001), pp. 77-96.

• " ‘Our elections have nothing to do with democracy:’ East German popular perceptions of West German democracy in the 1950s” in Peter M. Daly, Hans Walter Frischkopf, Trudis E. Goldsmith-Reber, Horst Richter, Images of Germany: Perceptions and Conceptions (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 101-119.

Book Reviews________________________________________________________________

I have written 22 book reviews in the following journals:

The Canadian Journal of History (CAN)

Conflict Quarterly (CAN)

English Historical Review (UK)

H-German (US)

Historische Zeitschrift (GER)

German History (UK)

German Politics and Society (US)                   

Journal of Cold War Studies (US)    

Journal of Conflict Studies (CAN) 

Journal of Modern History (US)

Slavic Review (US)                    

Encyclopedia Entries____________________________________________________________

In the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, (Routledge, 1999) articles on

• The Historiography of Modern Germany

• Hermann Weber

• William McNeill

• Joseph Rothschild

In the Encyclopedia of the Cold War, (Routledge, 2008) articles on

• The Stasi

• Erich Honecker

Conference Presentations________________________________________________________

I have presented 20 papers to learned societies, including in the following cities:

Berlin (several times)           Boston                        New Orleans            Toronto

Washington D.C.                Poznan, Poland            Montreal

Honolulu                             Swansea, Wales          Ottawa

Updated: June 2008