About the Author
Kristie Macrakis was born and raised in Boston, MA. She spent several years in divided Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student. After receiving her Ph.D in the History of Science from Harvard University she spent another year in Berlin after unification. She is professor at Georgia Tech in Atlanta (macrakis@gatech.edu) where she teaches courses on History of Science, Germany and History of Espionage.
Her books include Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), Science under Socialism:
East Germany in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999) and Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World.
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008[Trade Division]) History Book Club Selection, East German Foreign Intelligence (Routledge, 2009).
She is the author of the acclaimed popular magazine article:
“The Case of Agent Gorbachev.” American Scientist, Nov-Dec. 2000, 88, 534-542, which was also reprinted in The Intelligencer.
She has received grants and awards from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Science Foundation as well as Fulbright and Humboldt Foundation grants. She lived in Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.