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Astrid M. Eckert is a Professor at Emory University, specializing in modern German and European history with a focus on environmental history and borderlands. Her research explores the cultural, social, and political dimensions of postwar Europe, including the Nazi era and inter-German relations. She holds M.A. degrees from the Free University of Berlin and the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin.
Her major publications include Struggle for the Files (2012), which examines the return of German archives post-WWII, and West Germany and the Iron Curtain (2019), analyzing the impact of the inter-German border on West Germany. Both books have garnered prestigious awards, including the Waldo Gifford Leland Award and the DAAD/GSA Book Prize.
- Research Interests: Modern German history, postwar European history, environmental history, borderlands, conservation, ecology.
- Awards: 2013 Leland Award, 2020 DAAD/GSA Prize, 2020 Smith Award, 2019 Hans Rosenberg Prize.
Her current projects address German climate diplomacy and the environmental legacy of the GDR. She advises graduate students and has mentored scholars whose works appear in leading journals and presses.
