Staff changes

Birte-Marie Blut, Intern, is a student in the North America Program at the University of Bonn. She currently is researching the counterculture in the United States in the 1960s for her M.A. thesis. During her time at the GHI - July to October - Blut will support GHI research and help prepare upcoming events.

Jan Ruth Lambertz, Editor, Cold War Project, joined the Institute in May. She was senior researcher for the Washington-based team of the Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland-World War II (Bergier Commission) before joining the GHI. In 1998-9 she organized a series of programs on national minorities in the "New Europe" through the Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include several articles on the history of women's work and family violence in modern British history. Her current research interests include the state and the citizen in the early GDR.

Youyoung Lee, Intern, was at the Institute from July to August. She currently is a senior at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. In 1999-2000 she was an exchange student in Bad Bramstedt (Schleswig-Holstein), Germany.

David B. Morris, Editor, Cold War Project, left the Institute in March to accept an appointment as the German Area Specialist at the European Division of the Library of Congress. As editor of the Cold War Project, a comprehensive, two-volume history of German-American relations from 1945 to 1990, Dr. Morris managed the review, copyediting, and translation of nearly 150 articles in both English and German. He also was one of the contributing authors. At the Library of Congress, Dr. Morris is responsible for selecting and maintaining the library's collections from German-speaking Europe, the second-largest collection in the LC and the largest in the world outside the respective countries of origin.

Jennifer Rodgers, Research Associate, was at the Institute from April to August. She received a B.A. from American University in 1998 and currently is working on an M.A. at the same institution. During her undergraduate studies Rodgers was an intern at the Office of Special Investigations in the U.S. Department of Justice. After graduation she held a position with the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, where she researched gold assets and the American occupation of Austria. Recently awarded a grant by the Fulbright Commission and the Austrian government, Rodgers will leave the GHI in September to pursue research into denazification in the city and province of Salzburg from 1945 to 1949. Her main areas of interest are twentieth-century political and social history, intelligence operations, and comparative history.

Richard F. Wetzell, Research Fellow, joined the Institute in July. Wetzell earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College (1984), an M.A. from Columbia University (1985), and a Ph.D. from Stanford University (1991). He has received a variety of fellowships and grants. Before joining the GHI he taught in the Department of History at the University of Maryland at College Park. His book Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945, an intellectual history of criminology as a scientific field, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2000. Wetzell currently is writing a legal and political history of German penal reform from the Kaiserreich through the Nazi period, to be published as Between Retributive Justice and Social Hygiene: Penal Reform in Modern Germany. His research interests include the history of law, science, and politics in modern Germany; the history of psychiatry; and the history of sexuality.