Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC and editor of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. He studied at Swarthmore College (B.A.), and did his graduate work in European history at Columbia University (M.A.) and Stanford University (Ph.D.). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, and the Catholic University of America. His research focuses on the intersection of law, science, and politics in modern Germany as well as the history of deviance. His publications include Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (2000), Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (ed., forthcoming 2013), Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980 (co-edited, 2012), and Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective (co-edited, 2006). He is currently completing a legal and political history of penal reform titled The Politics of Punishment: German Penal Reform, 1870-1970.

• Modern German history
• Legal history
• Cultural history
• History of science and medicine
• History of deviance and social control
• History of sexuality

since 2002	Research Fellow and Editor, German Historical Institute Washington DC (Editor, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute)
2005/2008	Adjunct Associate Professor, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University (Spring 2005, Spring 2008, Fall 2008)
2000 - 2002	Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington DC
1995 - 2000	Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
1993 - 1995	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
1991 - 1993	Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park