Participant Info
- First Name
- Astrid M.
- Last Name
- Eckert
- Country
- United States
- State
- GA Georgia
- aeckert@emory.edu
- Affiliation
- Emory
- Website URL
- http://history.emory.edu/people/bios/faculty-bios/eckert-astrid.html
- Keywords
- Modern German history, 20th-century Germany, history of the Federal Republic of Germany, history of the German Democratic Republic, Modern European history, history of Nazi Germany, history of German archives, environmental history, borderlands, Iron Curtain/inter-German border, nature conservation
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
Zonenrandgebiet. Westdeutschland und der Eiserne Vorhang. (Berlin: Chr. Links, 2022).
West Germany and the Iron Curtain. Environment, Economy & Culture in the Borderlands (Oxford University Press, 2019).
The Struggle for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2012; Paperback Feb. 2014).
“West German Borderland Aid and European State Aid Control,” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook 58:1 (2017): 107-136.
“Geteilt, aber nicht unverbunden. Grenzgewässer als deutsch-deutsches Umweltproblem,” [Transboundary River Pollution as Environmental Problem between East and West Germany] Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 62:1 (2014), 321-351.
“’Greetings From the Zonal Border’. Tourism to the Iron Curtain in West Germany,” Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 8:1 (2011): 9-36.
“Managing Their Own Past. German Archivists between National Socialism and Democracy,” Archival Science [Springer Publ.] 7:3 (2007): 223-244.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/Astrid_M_Eckert
- Country Focus
- Germany, Central Europe
- Expertise by Geography
- Germany
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Environment, Government, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Politics
