Cold War Memory: Interpreting the Physical Legacy of the Cold War

September 08, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

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Keith R. Allen -- contact

Keith R. Allen earned his Ph.D. in History at Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. Dr. Allen served as the senior research associate on the Bergier Commission, collaborating with international scholars and financiers to interpret Swiss bank records from the 1940s. From May 1998 to May 2001, he was the Supervisory Historian and Director of the Wexner Learning Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at American University and at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Major support for his research and writing has come from the Fulbright Commission, The Johns Hopkins University, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His publications during the past year include a scholarly monograph, written in German, on the history of food policy in modern Germany. His current research considers places identified with the Cold War.

David Berwick -- contact

David Berwick is currently the Manager of the Army Program with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. In this capacity, Mr. Berwick assists the Army in developing Army-wide programmatic approaches to historic preservation compliance issues to assist the Army in improving historic preservation management while reducing time and cost associated with compliance. David Berwick has held previous positions in the government with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Memphis and St. Paul Districts, as well as with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He has also served on the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Review Board. David Berwick received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Michael Binder -- contact

Michael Binder is Intermediate Document Reviewer II (IDR II), Historic Records Audit Program at the Columbia Services Group, Inc., in Fairfax, Virginia. There he conducts detailed reviews of Department of Energy and other government agency documents to identify and protect classified information. Prior to his work at Columbia Services Group, he was a principal researcher at MILSITE RECON (Military Site Reclamation and Conversion), Dallas, Texas and Olney, Maryland. Michael Binder continues to work as a consultant to private engineering companies, federal agencies, law firms, and news media. Mr. Binder received a M.Phil in Geology from the Yale University in 1975, and a B.S. in Chemistry from UCLA.

Thomas S. Blanton -- contact

Thomas S. Blanton is Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Blanton served as the Archive's first Director of Planning & Research beginning in 1986, became Deputy Director in 1989, and Executive Director in 1992. He filed his first Freedom of Information Act request in 1976 as a weekly newspaper reporter in Minnesota; and among many hundreds subsequently, he filed the FOIA request and subsequent lawsuit (with Public Citizen Litigation Group) that forced the release of Oliver North's Iran-contra diaries in 1990. His books include White House E-Mail: The Top Secret Computer Messages the Reagan-Bush White House Tried to Destroy (New York: The New Press, 1995). He also co-authored The Chronology (New York: Warner Books, 1987) on the Iran-contra affair, and served as a contributing author to Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws and Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1998). His articles have appeared in The International Herald-Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Slate, the Wilson Quarterly, and many other publications.

Michael Briggs -- contact

Michael Briggs is Webmaster for the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Since 1995, he has designed websites and interactive technology for cultural and educational institutions. His clients have included the San Francisco Unified School District and Smithsonian National Museum of American Art.

Christopher John Bright -- contact

Christopher John Bright is writing his dissertation in the Department of History at The George Washington University. His topic is the strategic, practical, and cultural ramifications of American defensive nuclear weapons during the Eisenhower administration. Mr. Bright has authored "Nike Defends Washington," published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (vo1. 105 no. 3, Summer 1997). His dissertation work is being supported by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History, the Eisenhower Presidential Library, and the Guggenheim Predoctoral Fellowship Program at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Dirk van M. Brouwer -- contact

Dirk Brouwer is a retired Naval Officer writing a book about Amphibious Naval Operations during the Cold War. He was an economist with the Maritime Administration and Project Management Officer for the Transportation Coordinator’s Automated Command and Control System developed by the Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC). He has authored articles on Strategic Mobility and Sealift for the Naval Institute Proceedings and MTMC’s TRANSLOG. He is a member of the board of the American Amphibious Force Association and the American Amphibious Force Museum.

James Carucci -- contact

James Carucci is the Cold War Specialist, Architectural Historian, and Historic Archaeologist at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California. Currently, he oversees the management and preservation of more than forty Cold War era sites, facilities, or launch complexes at Vandenberg listed or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. Carucci received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and has worked extensively as an archaeologist in the American Midwest, High Plains, and Southwest, as well as the islands of western Micronesia. In nearly fifteen years of civil service, he has served in the Air Force, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

Chen Jian -- contact

CHEN Jian is C. K. Yen Professor of Chinese American Relations at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is also Zijiang Visiting Professor at East China Normal University. Among his many publications are The Road to a Global War: A Study of the Origins of the Second World War (in Chinese, 1989), China’s Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Chinese American Confrontation (1994), Chinese Communist Foreign Policy and the Cold War in Asia: New Documentary Evidence, 1944 1950 (co editor, 1996), The China Challenge in the 21st Century: Implications for U. S. Foreign Policy (1998), Mao’s China and the Cold War (2001).

Bruce Craig -- contact

Bruce Craig is the Director of the National Coalition for History, the advocacy organization representing the historical and archival community on Capitol Hill. His NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE is widely read throughout the historical community. Dr. Craig also authors a regular column in the most important monthly publications read by historians working in this country, American Historical Association’s Perspectives and the Organization of American Historians’ newsletter. He is also an adjunct faculty member at American University in Washington, DC. Craig received his Ph.D. from American University in 1999 and his M.A. in Public History in 1982 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Craig has authored numerous scholarly and popular articles. His book, Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Espionage Case, is forthcoming from the University Press of Kansas.

Michael J. Devine -- contact

Michael J. Devine is the Director of the Truman Presidential Library and President of the Truman Library Institute. He earned his doctorate in U.S. Diplomatic History from Ohio State University and has held administrative positions as Administrator of the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, Deputy Director of Historic St. Mary's City, Illinois State Historian, Director of the Illinois State Historical Society and Director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. He has twice served as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Argentina (1983) and South Korea (1995). During the 1998 1999 academic year, he was the Houghton Freeman Professor of American History at the Johns Hopkins University Graduate Center at Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China.

Peter Earnest -- contact

Peter Earnest is Executive Director of the International Spy Museum, Washington, DC. Mr. Earnest's thirty-six year CIA career included over twenty years in the Agency's Clandestine Service. A member of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service, he was awarded the Agency's Intelligence Medal of Merit for superior performance throughout his career. Mr. Earnest also served as the Agency's principal spokesman in his final posting, developing and implementing a strategy of greater openness with the media and the public.

Astrid M. Eckert -- contact

Astrid M. Eckert is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. She studied History and North American Studies at Free University Berlin and was a Fulbright student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received an M.A. in American History from Michigan in 1995, and a M.A. in History from the Free University in 1998. During the academic year 1998/99, Ms. Eckert was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University. Her first book, Changing Enemy Images: The American Perception of Germany and Japan at the End of World War II and Beyond, was published in 1999. She received her doctorate from Free University Berlin in 2003, and currently is preparing her dissertation manuscript The Fight for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of Captured German Records After World War II, 1944 1958 for publication.

Jeffrey A. Engel -- contact

Jeffrey A. Engel received his Ph.D. in History in 2001 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The title of his dissertation is “Cold War at 30,000 Feet: Anglo-American Technology Controls, Aircraft Sales, and Trading with the Enemy at the Dawn of the Jet Age.” His work explores the intersections of diplomacy, technology, and theories of economic warfare. Formerly a Mellon Humanities Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow of the National Air and Space Museum, a National Endowment for the Humanities “Younger Scholar,” and a Fellow of Temple University’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, he has published in History and Technology, The New England Journal of History, Political Internacional, and has forthcoming articles in Diplomatic History and Enterprise & Society. He is currently preparing his dissertation manuscript for publication. From 2001-03, he served as a John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellow of Yale University’s International Security Studies program, where he organized an international conference, co-sponsored by the Cold War International History Project, which explored the local and regional impact of Cold War diplomacy. He is currently editing the articles produced by that conference for publication. Beginning in the fall of 2003, Engel will serve as a Lecturer with the University of Pennsylvania’s International Relations Program.

Terry Fehner -- contact

Terry Fehner is Senior Historian with the Department of Energy (DOE) History Division. He is co-author of the Department’s official history. Among his other co-authored publications are histories of the Department’s environmental programs and the origins of the Nevada Test Site. Forthcoming is a history of DOE and the Cold War. He also serves as the Department’s Deputy Federal Preservation Officer. He assists the Federal Preservation Officer in coordinating DOE’s compliance with all cultural resource management regulations and in designing and implementing a department-wide historic preservation program. He has been with DOE since 1986.

John Fowler -- contact

John M. Fowler currently serves as Executive Director of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, Fowler has worked with the Advisory Council since 1976. He has served on the boards of numerous agencies committed to historic preservation, including the U.S. National Committee for the International Council of Monuments and Sites, the National Center for Preservation Law, and the Parks and History Association, and participated as a member of U.S. delegations on historic preservation issues to the People’s Republic of China, the U.S.S.R., Sri Lanka, Italy, and Spain. In addition to holding teaching positions at the Washington College of Law at American University , Columbia School of Architecture, and the Department of Justice Legal Education Institute and American Law Institute, he has also lectured on historic preservation law and policy at numerous universities, including Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale Law School, the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, Columbia University and The George Washington University Law School. The author of numerous publications, Fowler most recently wrote “the Federal Preservation Program,” published in A Richer Heritage (Chapel Hill/London, 2003).

Angela R. Gladwell -- contact

Angela R. Gladwell is a Historic Preservation Specialist with the Historic Preservation and Cultural Resources Program at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In this position, she provides support to the Federal Preservation Officer in overseeing compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act and other relevant laws in all of FEMA’s projects and activities. She also currently serves as the coordinator for FEMA’s environmental and historic preservation training. Prior to joining FEMA in 1999, Ms. Gladwell gained preservation-related work experience through numerous assistantships and internships. She worked jointly with the Center of Historic Architecture and Design and the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, focusing on disaster preparedness planning and mitigation for the State’s historic resources. She has also completed internships with the Maryland Historical Trust (State Historic Preservation Office), Preservation Dallas, and the Preservation Alliance of Virginia. Ms. Gladwell received her B.A. with Departmental Honors in historic preservation from Mary Washington College. She has also served as a Mary Washington College Bowley scholar with the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. She received her M.A. from the University of Delaware in urban affairs and public policy, with a concentration in historic preservation.

Skip Gosling -- contact

Skip Gosling joined the Department of Energy History Division in 1988 after a university teaching career at New Mexico State University and Vanderbilt University. Among his publications at DOE are a history of the Manhattan Project and a classified history of the Department of Energy's role in the first Gulf War. He has also co authored histories of the Department's environmental programs and the origins of the Nevada Test Site. He is the Department's Chief Historian and the Department's Federal Preservation Officer. As Federal Preservation Officer, he is responsible for coordinating DOE's compliance with all cultural resource management statutes and for designing and implementing a Department wide historic preservation program.

John Grant -- contact

John C. Grant, Founder, President and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Palm Beach Maritime Museum, has made a career of the development and executive management of ocean technology- related activities. For nearly thirty years he has been directly involved with environmental and marine resource assessment; content and conduct of marine science academic programs; restoration of the USS Sequoia; and conduct of at-sea expeditions. Grant is a 1956 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He pursued graduate study at George Washington University. Mr. Grant has also produced a number of educational films about the sea, including Man in the Sea and The Great Sea Farm, which won the Cine Golden Eagle and the Chris Statuette Award for the Best Educational Film of 1972.

David Guldenzopf -- contact

David Guldenzopf is currently the Chief of the Cultural Resources Branch, Base Operations Support Division, U.S. Army Environmental Center. In this capacity, Dr. Guldenzopf assists in the development and execution of the Department of the Army's Cultural Resources Management Program. David Guldenzopf has held previous positions in government with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Baltimore, the U.S. Army at Fort Drum, the New York State Historic Preservation Office and with the U.S. Forest Service in Ocala National Forest, Florida. He has taught anthropology at the University of New York (Albany) and at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Dr. Guldenzopf received his B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany. He has received the Superior Civilian Service Award and the Commander's Award for Civilian Service.

Lee H. Hamilton -- contact

Lee H. Hamilton became Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in January 1999. Prior to becoming Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Lee Hamilton served for thirty-four years as a United States Congressman from Indiana. During his tenure, he served as Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (now the Committee on International Relations), and chaired the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East from the early 1970s until 1993. Mr. Hamilton also served as Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Mr. Hamilton established himself as a leading congressional voice on foreign affairs, with particular interests in promoting democracy and market reform in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, expanding U.S. markets and trade overseas, and overhauling U.S. export and foreign aid policies. His service enabled him to become an astute observer and participant in many significant historical events, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Arab/Israeli peace negotiations, and the Gulf War. Mr. Hamilton remains an important and active voice on matters of international relations and foreign affairs. He served as a Commissioner on the influential United States Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (better known as the Hart-Rudman Commission), and was Co-Chair with former Senator Howard Baker of the Baker-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos. He is currently a member of the advisory council for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and in December 2002, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

Hope M. Harrison -- contact

Hope M. Harrison, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at George Washington University in the Department of History and the Elliott School of International Affairs. She also serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Council on Germany, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cold War International History Project. She has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and op-ed pieces on Soviet-East German relations during the Cold War and has a book forthcoming with Princeton University Press entitled Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations 1953-1961. This monograph is based on her extensive research conducted in the former communist archives in Moscow and Berlin. Dr. Harrison also served as Director for European and Eurasian Affairs for the National Security Council where she handled White House-National Security Council relations with Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she has also made several media appearances including as a television commentator on CNN's Cold War Postscript series and on C-SPAN. Dr. Harrison has presented several papers and lectures on the Cold War, archival research, and Soviet-East German relations in the U.S., Russia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, China, Hungary, Poland and Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Social Studies.

Gary S. Hartman -- contact

Gary S. Hartman has worked with the Department of Energy during the past fourteen years. He has been employed at the Department’s Oak Ridge Operations center, working on cultural resource management, National Environmental Policy Act compliance, as well as related environment, safety, and health issues. In addition, he has fifteen years’ experience at the Tennessee Valley Authority, working in the areas of environmental compliance, nuclear licensing, and engineering geology.

Joanne D. Hartog -- contact

Joanne D. Hartog is director of the Archives and Library of the George C. Marshall Foundation. Its holdings focus on military, political and diplomatic history and include the George C. Marshall Papers. She also directs the Marshall Undergraduate Scholarship Program and Marshall Lecture Series and teaches a course in politics for Dabney Lancaster Community College. She holds a B.A. in History and Political Science and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia.

Carol Hegeman -- contact

Carol A. Hegeman is the Supervisory Historian at the Eisenhower National Historic Site. She is a graduate of Gettysburg College and began working for the National Park Service while in college. She has served at the Gettysburg National Military Park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, and the Lincoln Home National Historic Site. In 1980, Ms. Hegeman became the supervisor of interpretive operations at the Eisenhower National Historic Site. She has planned and overseen the development of visitor services, education programs, exhibits, interpretive programming on Eisenhower’s life and work, and special events. Ms. Hegeman has conducted over 200 hours of oral history interviews with Eisenhower family, friends and associates about the Eisenhowers’ life in Gettysburg. She is author of a Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan for teachers, Thaw in the Cold War.

Dan Holt -- contact

Dan Holt has over forty years experience in archives, museums, and educational programming in historical agencies at the city, state, and federal level. He began his career in 1962 with the Kansas State Historical Society. He has been the museum curator and archives director at The Citadel, and has directed the Liberty Memorial, an archives and museum dedicated to World War I. After serving as the first director of the National Frontier Trails Center, Independence, Missouri, Mr. Hold assumed the position of director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum (Eisenhower Center) in 1990. He oversaw the concept plan, story development, and implementation of the presidential gallery’s recent innovation. In 2001 he was instrumental in the planning and implementation of the Kansas State University Institute for Military History and 20th Century American Studies, in which the Eisenhower Library and the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, are partners. He holds a MA degree in military history, has published three books, and 21 scholarly articles. He is the editor of Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1904 1941 In 2002, President Bush appointed him to serve on the Brown v. Board of Education 50th anniversary commission.

John A. Hurley -- contact

John A. Hurley is a member of the Cold War Museum Board of Directors and a CSC employee. He served from 1959 2001 in the United States Air Force, Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Management and Budget's International Programs Division where he last served as Assistant Division Chief and the U.S. Customs Service. He has since retired from the Customs Service and from the United States Air Force Reserve to which he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1988.

Arnita A. Jones -- contact

Arnita A. Jones has served as Executive Director of the American Historical Association (AHA) since 1999. The AHA, chartered by the Congress in 1889, is the oldest and largest organization of professional historians: its membership includes faculty from all levels of higher education, pre-collegiate teachers, and public historians. Prior to her appointment at the AHA, Jones managed the Planning and Assessment Studies Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities and served for eleven years as the chief executive officer of the Organization of American Historians. During her tenure there the OAH engaged in several successful outreach efforts to strengthen relationships between U. S. historians and scholars abroad whose teaching and research focus on the United States. Jones holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Vanderbilt University and her doctorate in modern German history from Emory University. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries, the Center for Arts and Culture, the National Coalition for History, and the Executive Committee of the Conference of Administrative Officers of the American Council of Learned Societies. Her publications and research have lately focused on the history of history education, particularly comparative reform efforts in the United States and Europe.

Annette Kaminsky -- contact

Annette Kaminksy is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Coming to Terms with the East German Dictatorship (Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur). The Foundation contributes, in cooperation with other institutions, to the complete research of the causes, history, and impact of dictatorship in the Soviet Zone of German Occupation and the former East Germany. The Foundation’s aim is to preserve the memory of injustice suffered by the regime’s victims, as well as to foster a critical awareness of the dictatorship’s legacy in our own time. Dr. Kaminsky is the editor of several highly regarded collections on the subject of East German political represssion, as well as the author of important studies on consumer behavior in East Germany. Most recently, she published Wohlstand, Schönheit, Glück: Kleine Konsumgeschichte der DDR (Munich, 2001).

Robert Kehler -- contact

Maj. Gen. C. Robert "Bob" Kehler is Director, National Security Space, Office of the Undersecretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. General Kehler entered the Air Force as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program in 1975. Also a distinguished graduate of missile operational readiness training, he has held numerous missile crew, instructor, evaluator and key wing-level staff positions. Following an Air Staff internship and tour at Strategic Air Command headquarters, he was reassigned to the Secretary of the Air Force's Office of Legislative Liaison, where he was the point man on Capitol Hill for matters regarding the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Program.

Cynthia C. Kelly -- contact

Cynthia C. Kelly is President of the Atomic Heritage Foundation, which is dedicated to the preservation of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age. Ms. Kelly studied history at Wellesley College (BA) and Yale University (MAT) and served as a senior executive in United States government agencies for over twenty years. Most recently she was at the Department of Energy (1993-2000), where she became involved in preserving the historic properties of the Manhattan Project and Cold War nuclear weapons production facilities. After working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, she founded the Atomic Heritage Foundation in February 2002. The Foundation has produced a Symposium on the Manhattan Project (April 2002), an interim Report to Congress on how best to preserve the Manhattan Project history (July 2003), two documentary films, and an oral histories series.

John V. Ketchum -- contact

John V. Ketchum is the Historic Preservation Officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), now part of the Department of Homeland Security. Appointed in 2001 as FEMA’s Federal Preservation Officer (FPO), Mr. Ketchum directs FEMA’s compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act and related laws. He also coordinates activities to ensure that cultural and historic resources receive appropriate assistance during delivery of FEMA programs. Previously, Mr. Ketchum served as senior staff support for the FEMA FPO, and was the emergency response coordinator for the National Institute for Conservation. Mr. Ketchum graduated, cum laude, with a B.A. in English literature from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Axel Klausmeier -- contact

Axel Klausmeier studied art history at the Universities of Bochum, Munich, and Berlin, Germany. His doctoral thesis deals with the work of the British eighteenth century architect Thomas Ripley (1682 1758). He is also the author of several articles on the history of garden design and architecture. After an internship with the Foundation of Prussian Castles and Gardens Berlin Brandenburg in Potsdam he became Assistant Professor at the Department of Conservation Studies at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, Germany. Together with Professor Dr. Leo Schmidt of Cottbus University he recently completed an archaeological survey of of the physical remains and traces of the Berlin Wall.

Karl L. Kleve -- contact

Karl L.Kleve is an Historian and works as Curator and Head of Research at the Norwegian Aviation Museum. His specialty is the Cold War, a subject where he has written several publications and been responsible for a wide range of activities for the public, including exhibitions, conferences, lecture series and educational activities.

Sue Lamie -- contact

Sue Lamie is an historian with the National Park Service. She has the privilege of working at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota. Ms. Lamie graduated, cum laude, with a B.A. in American Civilization from Wheaton College (MA).

Douglas N. Lantry -- contact

Douglas N. Lantry is a research historian at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. He received his M.A. in Public History at Kent State University and is a Ph.D. candidate in History and Museum Studies at the University of Delaware, where he is a fellow in the University of Delaware Hagley Program in the History of Technology and Industrialization. He serves as an advisor to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's "Save America's Treasures: Threatened Artifacts of the Apollo Program" project, and is a member of the museum's Materials Advisory Group. Prior to working at the Air Force Museum, Mr. Lantry served a conservation internship at the Smithsonian's Paul E. Garber Facility, and worked for the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio Statehouse office. He is an Air Force Reserve officer at Air Force Materiel Command Headquarters History Office.

Roger D. Launius -- contact

Roger D. Launius is chair of the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Between 1990 and 2002 he served as chief historian at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A graduate of Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, he received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1982. He has written and edited several books on aerospace history, including Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars (2003), which received the AIAA’s history manuscript prize, Flight: A Celebration of 100 Years in Art and Literature (2003), edited with Anne Collins Goodyear, Anthony M. Springer, and Bertram Ulrich, as well as To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles (2002), with Dennis R. Jenkins.

Melvyn P. Leffler -- contact

Melvyn P. Leffler is the Stettinius Professor of American history at the University of Virginia. He has written extensively on the Cold War and is best known for his book on the Truman administration, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. During the 2002 3 academic year, he was the Harmsworth Professor at Oxford and lectured on 9/11 and the past and future of American foreign policy.

Phyllis Leffler -- contact

Phyllis Leffler is the Director of the Institute for Public History and professor at the University of Virginia. As Director of the Institute, she oversees a summer internship program for university students, placing them in area museums and public history settings. She also directs Explorations in Black Leadership, an oral history project which brings African American leaders to the university to be interviewed by Julian Bond. She is the author of Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm (Krieger, 1991), as well as editor of the anthology, Public History Readings (Krieger, 1992). During the 2002 2003 academic year, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University.

Tom Lillie -- contact

Tom Lillie is a professional staff member with the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, United States Senate, Washington, DC. He is responsible for developing and planning legislative initiatives and advising Members on legislative issues involving national parks, historic preservation, recreation, and natural resources. He formulates positions and recommends strategies and tactics on specific legislative and oversight issues, including technical and legal analysis of pending legislation. Additionally, he responds to constituent requests and concerns relating to assigned issues. Dr. Lillie graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Management. He was commissioned in the US Air Force in 1977, completed a Master of Science degree in Entomology from Colorado State University in 1978, and earned a doctorate in Medical Entomology from the University of Florida in 1985. In his final Air Force assignment, Tom served as Military Liaison to the Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, wherein he was responsible for intergovernmental coordination and negotiation between the Department of the Interior and the Department of Defense on matters concerning endangered species, military training areas, overflight of public lands, and other national issues. He retired from active duty on August 31, 2003, in the rank of Colonel. He is a member of the Sigma Xi Research Society and the author of numerous scientific publications.

Roger W. Lotchin -- contact

Roger W. Lotchin is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of five books, San Francisco, 1846-1956: From Village to Metropolis (1974); The Martial Metropolis: American Cities in Peace and War (1984); Fortress California, 1910 1960: From Warfare to Welfare (1992); The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second World War (2000); and The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego (2003); as well as a 1994 special edition of the Pacific Historical Review on the Second World War in California. He has also written numerous articles and essays on urban history, war and urban society, and California cities.

Paul R. Lusignan -- contact

Paul R. Lusignan is an historian with the National Register of Historic Places at the National Park Service. He is responsible for evaluating historic properties nominated by state and federal agencies for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Mr. Lusignan evaluates resources for eligibility under the National Historic Landmark program, reviewing requests for determinations of eligibility from federal agencies and tax act appeals. He works directly with federal agencies, state and tribal historic preservation offices, and the public, providing technical advice and guidance on National Register evaluation procedures, administrative policies, and implementation strategies. Mr. Lusignan received his M.S. in historic preservation from the University of Vermont in 1983.

Craig Manson -- contact

Craig Manson is the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks in the United States Department of the Interior. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001 and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on January 25, 2002. He assumed office on February 19, 2002. Mr. Manson oversees the National Parks Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. He is responsible for 384 National Parks and 538 National Wildlife Refuges covering a total of 178 million acres in the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Somoa. Mr. Manson previously served as a judge of the Superior Court of California in Sacramento from 1998 to 2002. Prior to that, he was General Counsel of the California Department of Fish and Game from 1993 to 1998. He practiced law in Sacramento from 1989 to 1993. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Mr. Manson served on active duty in the Air Force from 1976 to 1989. He is presently a colonel in the Air National Guard. His military awards include the Legion of Merit and the Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster. Mr. Manson received his law degree with great distinction from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he was named Outstanding Graduating Senior, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Pacific Law Review, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Manson was a faculty member at McGeorge.

Edward J. Marolda -- contact

Edward J. Marolda currently serves as the Senior Historian at the Naval Historical Center in Washington D.C. He has authored and edited numerous books, most recently Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy, and the Spanish-American War. Dr. Marolda’s publications also include The Washington Navy Yard: An Illustrated History, Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War, FDR and the U.S. Navy, and Operation End Sweep: A History of Minesweeping Operations in North Vietnam. He served as a company-grade officer in the U.S. Army’s 4th Transportation Command in the Republic of Vietnam during 1969 and 1970. He holds a B.A. from Pennsylvania Military College in History, a M.A. from Georgetown University in European Diplomatic History, and a Ph.D. from the George Washington University in U.S. History.

William McCarron -- contact

William McCarron is Vice President for Media and Sponsorships at Verizon, a Fortune 10 Corporation with revenues of $67 billion handling communications in 45 countries. McCarron runs a 30-person department that oversees media, merchandising, program placement, sponsorships and competitive analysis on branding, residence and business market products as well as Broadband and e business services.

Kris Mitchell -- contact

Kris Mitchell has been the historian for BWXT Pantex at the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas during the past nine years. He is responsible for assisting the Pantex Site Office in its compliance with various cultural resource management laws, including the National Historic Preservation Act. Mitchell earned his M.A. in United States History and Historic Preservation from Arizona State University, and his B.A. degree in History from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Anna K. Nelson -- contact

Anna K. Nelson is the Distinguished Historian in Residence at American University where she teaches courses on U.S. Foreign Policy. She received her Ph.D. from George Washington University and has written on a variety of subjects related to the history of U.S. foreign policy. Her publications on the Cold War include: "Research Note: Operation Northwoods and the Covert War Against Cuba, 1961 1963," (2002), "Illuminating the Twilight Struggle: New Interpretations of the Cold War," (1999); "The Importance of Foreign Policy Process: Eisenhower and the National Security Council," Ambrose/Bishoff, ed.,(1995) and "President Kennedy's National Security Policy: a Reassessment (1991). She is currently writing a series of essays on five Cold War presidents to be titled, Presidents, Policy and Process (2005)

Carole M. P. Neves -- contact

Dr. Neves is currently Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Policy and Analysis where she manages a team charged with transforming the nation’s largest museum complex. Efforts include the implementation of a disciplined approach to strategic planning institution-wide, developing a ground-breaking evaluation of Smithsonian exhibitions and conducting almost forty different studies. Prior to joining the Smithsonian, Dr. Neves was Director of Government and International Programs at the National Academy of Public Administration leading over seventy Congressionally-mandated studies to improve the effectiveness of public agencies such as the National Aeronautic and Space Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. Earlier in her career, she was Senior Research Assistant at Urban Systems Research and Engineering where she conducted evaluations of over a dozen health and human services programs. Dr. Neves received a B.A. from Macalester College and studied at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) before receiving her M.A. in Urban Affairs/Economics and Ph.D. in Public Administration/Policy at Virginia Polytechnic and State University.

Leonid Obukhov -- contact

Leonid Obukhov is a Professor of History at Perm State University. Since 1997, he has been the director of the Research Team at the “Perm-36” Gulag Museum, the main historic site dedicated to the memory of the vast Gulag system. His field of expertise is the history of Soviet political repression and resistance. Dr. Obukhov has conducted extensive studies of the Gulag system’s physical remains throughout the Russia Federation and the successor states of the Soviet Union.

Christian F. Ostermann -- contact

Christian F. Ostermann is the director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project (CWIHP), an international clearinghouse for cold war research. He is also editor of the CWIHP Bulletin. Before joining CWIHP in January 1997 as associate director, he worked as a research fellow at the National Security Archive, a non-governmental research institute and repository based at George Washington University. He won the DAAD Article Award of the German Studies Association for “Best Article in German Studies (History), 1994-1996,” as well as Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations’ Stuart L. Bernath Grant as well as the W. Stull Holt Fellowship. In 1999 he spent five months as a fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. His publications include Uprising in East Germany, 1953: The Cold War, the German Question, and the First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain (2001).

Robert W. Parker -- contact

Robert W. Parker was named president of DynSpace—a Computer Sciences Corporation subsidiary that manages and operates the Virginia Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia—in September 1998. He also has been managing for CSC the critical infrastructure protection functions under the Homeland Security initiative. Prior to joining CSC, he served as Vice President of Plans and Marketing for the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) in San Antonio, Texas, where he was responsible for developing strategic and annual business plans for the fourth largest Property & Casualty insurance company in the country. A General in the Air Force, Gen. Parker was the 20th Air Force Commander at the Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. Prior to that position, he was Director of Space Operations for the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. He has held numerous key command and staff position including the Director of the On-Site Inspection Agency, responsible for the implementation of all U.S. arms control treaties. He also commanded two Strategic Air Command missile wings. He retired in 1996 in the grade of Major General. Parker received a MBA from Ohio State University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from St. Michael’ s College in Winooski, Vermont. He has attended the Kellogg School of Business, Executive Management Program, Northwestern University, Kennedy School of Government, Executive Program, Harvard University, and Darden School of Business, Executive Management Program, University of Virginia.

Margaret Paxson -- contact

Margaret Paxson, Senior Associate, Kennan Institute. B.A. Anthropology, McGill University (1987); M.Sc., Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Montreal (1991, 1999). Her doctoral research focused on the subject of social memory in rural Russia, and was based on over seventeen months of fieldwork in a single village in the Russian north. In 1999-2000 she worked with David Hoffman of the Washington Post conducting research for his book The Oligarchs. She has published academic articles in various venues and journalistic pieces in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine and the Wilson Quarterly. Currently she is completing a book based on her dissertation research.

Vladimir O. Pechatnov -- contact

Vladimir O. Pechatnov is the chair of European and American studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. His areas of research include American Political History and History of Soviet-American relations. He is the author of The Democratic Party of the United States: Electorate and Policy (1981), Hamilton and Jefferson (1984), and Walter Lippmann and the Ways of America (1994). In addition, he has published widely on the history of the early Cold War, specifically, Soviet-American Relations. Before joining the Moscow State faculty, Pechatnov was a research fellow at the Institute of United States and Canada Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also served in a diplomatic capacity at the Soviet/Russian Embassy in Washington.

Dwight Picaithley -- contact

Dwight Picaithley is the Chief Historian of the National Park Service. He has authored numerous National Park Service history studies and has published essays in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, The Public Historian, and the New Mexico Historical Review. Dwight has earned several awards, including the James Madison Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government. The Fulbright New Zealand Board of Directors has also named him Distinguished American Scholar.

Chris Pocock -- contact

Chris Pocock is a British writer and consultant specializing in aerospace, defense and the airfreight/express business. He took a B.A. (Hons) in History and Political Science at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, before entering the airfreight business. After eleven years with an international freight forwarder and two airlines, he became a freelance journalist. He contributed to various aerospace publications, and edited an international air cargo journal for five years. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Cargovision, the European editor of Cargo Facts, and the Defense editor of Aviation International News. His interest in the U-2 started in the early 1970s with a visit to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, then home of the US Air Force U-2 wing. In 1989, his first book Dragon Lady - A History Of The U-2 Spyplane received critical acclaim, especially from members of the airborne reconnaissance community. He continued to follow the history and current operations of this unique aircraft, and was instrumental in ensuring that an original U-2C aircraft was preserved and transferred to the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, United Kingdom. He is the only foreign civilian to have flown in the U-2. His latest book, The U-2 Spyplane: Toward the Unknown, was published in 2000.

Francis Gary Powers, Jr. -- contact

Francis Gary Powers, Jr. was born June 5, 1965, in Burbank, California. He is the son of Francis Gary and Claudia E. “Sue” Powers. Gary earned a B.A. in Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration / Certification in Non-profit Management from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. As President for the Vienna-Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce, Gary is dedicated to strengthening the business and professional community in Vienna and the surrounding area. In this position, he oversees the day-to-day operations of the Chamber and organizes events for Chamber members and the community. In 1996, Gary founded the Cold War Museum and Memorial to honor Cold War Veterans and preserve Cold War history. Currently, a mobile exhibit travels internationally that displays historical artifacts associated with the U-2 Incident of May 1960. The traveling exhibit seeks to promote the creation of a permanent Cold War Museum.

Constance Werner Ramirez -- contact

Constance Werner Ramirez, Ph.D., Director, Federal Preservation Institute, National Park Service, oversees a program to provide historic preservation information and training to federal agencies. Currently, the Institute is up dating its training on consultation with Native Americans and developing a Historic Preservation Learning Portal. Prior to coming to the Park Service, she was the Federal Preservation Officer for GSA. From 1977 to 1994, she was the preservation officer for the Department of the Army and from 1990 to 1994 oversaw the cultural resources projects of the D Legacy Resource Management Program, which included studies of the Cold War era.

Mary Trocchia Rasa -- contact

Mary Trocchia Rasa serves as Museum Curator for the National Park Service’s Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area located at Fort Hancock, New Jersey. Fort Hancock, a U.S. Army post from 1895 to 1974, had a mission of protecting New York City from enemy attack. From 1954 to 1974, Fort Hancock was known as NY-56, a dual battery location for Nike Missiles. Rasa worked as a Park Ranger-Interpreter from 1993 to 2000. During the ten years she has worked for the Park Service, she has increased participation and hours in the volunteer program, created several new tours and programs, begun an internship program with local universities and created an oral history program. Mary Rasa received her B.A. in Historic Preservation from Mary Washington College. She has written park handouts including “Museum Collection: Preserving and Protecting our Heritage,” “The Women’s Army Corps,” and the Fort Hancock Map and Guide.

Donald A. Ritchie -- contact

Donald A. Ritchie has been associate historian in the United States Senate Historical Office since 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, has taught at the Cornell in Washington program, and has served as President of the Oral History Association and on the council of the American Historical Association. For the Senate he has edited for publication the minutes of the Republican and Democratic Conferences, as well as the closed session transcripts of the Foreign Relations Committee and the McCarthy anti Communist investigations. His books include James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators (Harvard Press, 1980); Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents (Harvard Press, 1991); The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (Oxford Press, 2001); and Doing Oral History (Oxford Press, 2003).

Karl Rodman -- contact

Karl Rodman is Chair of the College Foundation in New Paltz, NY. Together with Susan Zimet he is co director of The Cold War/Peace Museum Organizing Committee. The mission of their museum is to preserve the S.A.G.E. (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) building, in Newburgh, NY, as a site aimed to engage the general public in a critical examination of the Cold War.

Romulus Rusan -- contact

Romulus Rusan - Born in 1935 in Alba Iulia, Romania, graduated the TCM School in Cluj. He began his literary career in 1954, in the "Steaua"(Star) Journal in Cluj-Napoca. He then served as an editor for various journals in Cluj and Bucharest and at the Literary Press. Mr. Rusan is the author of 16 books, including short stories, travel memoirs, film, and interviews, and the recipient of the Writers' Union prize for literature in 1964 and 1982. Together with Ana Blandiana he is a founding member of the Sighet Memorial and of the Oral History Project. He organized the annual international conferences at the Sighet Memorial and is the editor of the memorial's collection of papers and monographs. In 2000 he received the UNESCO Corneliu Coposu Prize for inter-ethnic and inter-confessional tolerance, for his work in the editing of the Analele Sighet collection, and the Adrian Marino prize for the book Exercises in Remembrance.

Bernd Schäfer -- contact

Dr. Bernd Schäfer is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, where he specializes in the new international Cold War History of the 1960s and 1970s. He is an Associate of the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact and a Senior Fellow at the Cold War International History Project. During the 1990s he published extensively in the field of East German history, devoting special attention to the State Security Service (Stasi) and the role of churches under communism. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Halle (1998) and a MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1991).

Paul Shambroom -- contact

Paul Shambroom photographed American nuclear weapons systems from 1992 2001. His book, Face to Face With the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War, was published this spring by The Johns Hopkins University Press. He has received a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other artist grants. His photographs are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Time, and Newsweek. Shambroom is represented by Julie Saul Gallery in New York.

William E. Sheridan -- contact

William E. Sheridan, an Army Reserve veteran, retired from his position as Assistant Chief of the Statewide Planning Office in the Rhode Island Department of Administration to take on the duties of Deputy Executive Director of the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation. He is a graduate of Rhode Island College, and went on to receive his Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Rhode Island and his JD from Suffolk University Law School. Bill is a practicing attorney who also has extensive experience consulting on municipal planning issues. His background includes many years of service to the community, primarily in North Providence, where he is well known for his work in education, sports, scouting and substance abuse prevention. He was also Chief of the Fruit Hill Fire Department, where he logged twenty five years of active service. Mr. Sheridan is a private pilot and a member of a number of aviation organizations, including RI Pilots Association, AOPA, EAA, and EAA Warbirds. He was one of the Founders of the Quonset Air Museum. He has served the museum and the Rhode Island Aviation Heritage Association in many different capacities since their inception. He is also a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, and has served as a director of a number of other non-profit groups.

Carol D. Shull -- contact

Carol D. Shull is Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places and Chief of the National Historic Landmarks Survey, for the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Ms. Shull is in charge of expanding and maintaining the National Register and directing the survey to identify historic sites for designation as National Historic Landmarks by the Secretary of the Interior. She also manages initiatives to make the National Register accessible to the public through such means as the Internet, the National Register Bulletin series that provides guidelines used nationwide for identifying, evaluating and registering cultural resources, and the National Register's Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary series, and its Teaching with Historic Places program. She earned her M.A. in American History at the University of Texas in Austin. She began her career with the National Park Service in 1972, where she has worked, written, and lectured extensively on historic preservation. Recently, she coedited and wrote the lead article in an edition of the National Park Service's professional journal, CRM Cultural Resource Management (2002) devoted to the National Register of Historic Places today and contributed chapters to two new books: Public Benefits of Archaeology, published by The University Press of Florida (2002) and Restoring Women's History through Historic Preservation, by The Johns Hopkins University Press (2003). She is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award from the U. S. Department of the Interior.

Richard Simpson -- contact

Richard Simpson, After a short period in the airline business working in the flight office of BKS Air Transport Ltd, Simpson joined the Royal Air Force Museum, London in 1970. He first worked in the Archives and Photographic sections before moving to the Department of Aircraft and Exhibits which he now heads. During his time in the Archives, he obtained his degree from the Open University. With a life long interest in aviation, and a degree in history, he also leads the Museum’s exhibition script writing work both as author and editor. Working closely with the museum’s own designers and outside design consultants he plans to provide crucial input in the interpretation of the Cold War in a major new exhibition building project at the RAF Museum’s regional base near Birmingham in the English Midlands.

Anna Slafer -- contact

Anna Slafer, Director of Education and Programming of the International Spy Museum, has over twenty years experience developing and managing educational programs at institutions that address history, design, and the environment. She served as the first manager of the Hands On History Room at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, and for over ten years served as the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum. She is the co-author of the award winning book, Why Design? and has served as a consultant to museums throughout the country. Ms. Slafer’s previous positions include work for the National Park Service, the Los Angeles Children’s Museum, and Discovery Creek Children’s Museum. She received her M.A.T. in Museum Education from The George Washington University.

John Sprinkle -- contact

John Sprinkle serves as the Supervisory Historian for the National Historic Landmarks Survey, a National Park Service program that examines American history to identify, evaluate, and document historic places that are nationally significant and retain a high degree of integrity. Recent surveys include the history of racial school desegregation, World War II, and the American Homefront. Dr. Sprinkle earned his Ph.D. in History from the College of William and Mary and has, most recently, conducted research on sites associated with the Cold War.

Bernd Stoever -- contact

Bernd Stoever received his Ph.D. in 1991 and his Habilitation in 2001. At present, he is a visiting professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany, as well as a research fellow at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. His most recent publications include Die Befreiung vom Kommunismus, Amerikanische Liberation Policy im Kalten Krieg 1947-1991 (Cologne, 2002) and Der Kalte Krieg (Munich, 2003).

Chris Sturdevant -- contact

Chris Sturdevant is the head of the Cold War Museum, Midwest Chapter, and assists with the Cold War Veterans Association in the upper Midwest as well. He is involved with the local American Legion chapter as 2nd Vice Commander in the Daniel J. Martin Post 8, Waukesha. Chris holds a B.S. degree in History from Carroll College in Waukesha and works as a librarian at the Waukesha Public Library.

William Taubman -- contact

William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003). In addition, he is the author of The View from Lenin Hills: Soviet Youth in Ferment (1967), Governing Soviet Cities: Bureaucratic Politics and Urban Development in the USSR (1973), and Stalin’s American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War (1982); co author (with Jane Taubman) of Moscow Spring (1989); editor translator of Khrushchev on Khrushchev by Sergei N. Khrushchev (1990); and co editor (with Sergei Khrushchev and Abbott Gleason) of Nikita Khrushchev (2000). He has also written op ed articles and book reviews for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution, and other publications. William Taubman is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, serving on the Steering Committee of the Harvard Cold War Studies Project. He currently chairs the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, and was a member the International Advisory Group for the Russian Foreign Ministry Archives. Taubman served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U. S. Department of State as an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1970-1971. He has also been a Senior Fellow of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, has held Rockefeller and Fulbright Hays Fellowships, and a NEH Fellowship in the Humanities. He has also been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.

Jay Thomas -- contact

Jay Thomas has served as the head of the U.S. Navy's cultural resources office and the service's Deputy Federal Preservation Officer since August 2000. He holds a Ph.D. in historical geography and a certificate in historic preservation from the University of Maryland.

Frank M. Tims -- contact

Frank M. Tims is Director of Public Affairs, Cold War Veterans Association. He also has appointments as professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, University of South Florida, and the College of Public Health, University of South Florida. He served in the US Army during the 1950s, including two years in West Germany. He has also conducted studies for Department of the Army during the 1960s and 1970s, including assignment to US Army Research Unit, Korea (1967-69). He also consulted to post Communist governments of eastern and central Europe in areas of public health and addiction.

Gary Tocchet -- contact

Gary Tocchet holds the rank of Colonel in the United States Army and he is an Air Defense Artillery Officer. He is an Associate Professor of History and the Program Director of American History for Department of History, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. After his undergraduate education at the U.S. Military Academy, where he concentrated his studies in National Security and Public Affairs, he served for over eighteen years in various tactical and operational-level military assignments. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in history and is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies, and the Naval War College. He teaches courses the history of U.S. Foreign Relations, Cold War America, and Society and Culture in U.S. History. He has served on the Academy’s Admissions, Curriculum, and Assessment Committees and is a member of the Educational Advisory Board for the Cold War Peace Museum in New York. He is currently working on a book about Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the United States in 1959.

Robert Del Tredici -- contact

Robert Del Tredici is an artist and photographer who has documented the nuclear age since 1979. His first work, The People of Three Mile Island (Sierra Club Books, 1980), was a study of commercial nuclear power. His second book, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb (Harper & Row, 1987), documented the US nuclear weapons industry and won the 1987 Olive Branch Book Award. Under U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Hazel O' Leary, Del Tredici became principal photographer for three Department of Energy studies on the present, past, and future of the post Cold War cleanup of the American nuclear weapons complex. He teaches photography and film in Montreal.

Mark K. Vogl -- contact

Mark K. Vogl graduated as a Distinguished Military Graduate, The Citadel, 1977. Commissioned as an Infantry Officer in the Regular Army of the United States and served from 1977 86. Among his assignments was command of a mechanized infantry company responsible for guarding the autobahn through the Fulda Gap. He has also served as a senior aide to New York State Senator Caesar Trunzo, 1994-2003. He also initiated a national effort resulting in the creation, by the United State Congress, of the Department of Defense Cold War Recognition Certificate. Vogl formerly served as the National Chair, American Veterans Cold War Veterans Committee, 1996 2001, and National Chair, American Veterans, National Defense and Foreign Relations Committee, 2001 2002.

Troy Wade -- contact

Troy Wade is chairman of the Nevada Alliance for Defense, Energy and Business, a group of more than thirty technology companies that support the Nevada Test Site and help bring new science and technology programs to Nevada. Mr. Wade is also president of Wade Associates, a Las Vegas based management consulting firm. He retired from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 1989 after over thirty years of service associated with the nation’s nuclear programs. During his tenure with DOE, he served as deputy manager of the Nevada Operations Office, as Director of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, and most recently as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs during the Reagan Administration. He currently serves as Chairman and President of the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation, is a trustee of the Nevada Development Authority, and is a member of the NTS Development Corporation executive committee. Mr. Wade also serves on a Department of Energy panel examining the appropriate role for the Nevada Test Site in the nuclear weapon Stockpile Stewardship program, is a member of the Secretary of Energy’s Openness Advisory Panel, and is a past member of the Secretary of Energy’s Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Facilities.

Jannelle Warren-Findley -- contact

Jannelle Warren-Findley specializes in the examination of history-making in museums, historical societies, federal agencies and national parks. Professor Warren-Findley’s work has ranged from a study of the New Deal era Federal Music Project to discussions of historical practice in postcolonial landscapes in New Zealand and Australia. She has written about the identification, interpretation, and preservation of historical sites, landscapes, and associated documents for the U.S. government. She codirects the Graduate Program in Public History at Arizona State University.

Gene Weisskopf -- contact

Gene Weisskopf is a former President of the ‘B’ Reactor Museum Association and a long time advocate for the preservation of Hanford's ‘B’ Reactor and its eventual opening as a museum. He has written and spoken extensively about the reactor and its role in history, and was the lead author and project coordinator for an Historic American Engineering Record about the reactor for the Department of Energy. Prior to writing about Hanford history, he authored numerous books about personal computers and software. He has worked as a computer applications developer and as a general building contractor. He attended Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Rebecca Hancock Welch -- contact

Rebecca Hancock Welch is an historian in the Office of Secretary of Defense Historical Office. Previously she was an historian with the Air Force History Office and the Smithsonian Institution. Rebecca Welch received her B.A. from the University of Texas in English Literature, her M.A. from the University of Texas, and her Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University. Her publications include Golden Legacy, Boundless Future. Essays on the United States Air Force and the Rise of Aerospace Power (2001) and Training to Fly: Military Flight Training, 1907-1945 (2000). She was also recipient of the Society for Historians of the Federal Government’s Pendleton Prize.

Arthur H. Wolf -- contact

Arthur H. Wolf has directed the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas since February 2003. Trained as an anthropologist at the universities of Nebraska and Arizona, his thirty year career has included curatorial and leadership roles at the School of American Research, Millicent Rogers Museum, the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society, the Museum of the Rockies, and the High Desert Museum. He has served as Vice Chair of the American Association of Museums board of directors, as a member of the American Association of Museums (AAM) Accreditation Commission, and as a board member of American Association of Museums/International Council on Museums, the U.S. National Committee of the International Council of Museums.

Susan A. Zimet -- contact

Susan A. Zimet is Co Director, Cold War/Peace Museum Organizing Committee. Ms. Zimet has an eclectic background in the political and business world. She served as the first woman supervisor of New Paltz, New York. She is also involved in film, television and advertising. Susan wrote, published, and marketed an award-winning book on Aids Awareness.