About the Author
Kristie Macrakis, a writer, historian and professor, received her Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University. After spending a post-doctoral year in Berlin, she joined the faculty of Michigan State University where she teaches courses in history of science and espionage history. She is currently spending her sabbatical at the Department of History of Science at Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar (macrakis@fas.harvard.edu)
She will move to Atlanta in January 2009 to take up a new professorship at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
Her books include Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), Science under Socialism:
East Germany in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999) and Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008[Trade Division]) History Book Club Selection.
She is the author of the acclaimed popular magazine article:
“The Case of Agent Gorbachev.” American Scientist, Nov-Dec. 2000, 88, 534-542, which was also reprinted in The Intelligencer.
She has received grants and awards from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Science Foundation as well as Fulbright and Humboldt Foundation grants. She lived in Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.