Kristie Macrakis
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Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
"Technology and the Rise of the U.S. Global Security State: How Can History Inform Policy? "
Full Biography
Kristie Macrakis is Professor in the School of History, Technology and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard University but is also a historian of espionage. She is the author or editor of five books including Surviving the Swastika (Oxford, 1993), Seduced by Secrets (Cambridge, 2008) and Prisoners, Lovers and Spies (Yale, 2014).
She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, a Humboldt Fellowship as well as grants from the Humboldt Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
She has also done numerous media interviews on TV and radio including the History Channel. For more information see www.kristiemacrakis.com.
Major Publications
Prisoners, Lovers and Spies: the Story of Invisible Ink. Yale Press, 2014
Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008
Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany. NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.