Dr. Hope M. Harrison is Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University. She is an expert on post-World War II Germany and particularly on East Germany
and the Berlin Wall. This year, Dr. Harrison was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit from
the Federal Republic of Germany for her work on German history and her contributions to
German-US relations. She has published 3 books: Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East
German Relations, 1953-1961 (Princeton Univ. Press, 2003, also published in German as
Ulbrichts Mauer by Propyläen Verlag, 2011); After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of
the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019); and The Berlin Wall: A
World Divided (Audible/Great Courses, 2021). She has contributed articles to the Washington
Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, and scholarly journals. Dr. Harrison has
appeared on CNN, BBC, C-SPAN, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, CCTV,
Deutschlandradio, Deutsche Welle, and many other media outlets in Germany, as well as in
documentaries in the US and Germany. Dr. Harrison serves as the Vice Chair of the International
Advisory Board of the Allied Museum in Berlin, and as a member of the boards of the Berlin
Wall Association in Berlin, the Foundation for German-American Academic Relations, the
BlackBox Cold War exhibit at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, and on the Advisory Board of the
Point Alpha Foundation in Geisa, Germany. She has held multiple research fellowships in the US
and Germany.