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HTS Speaker Kristie Macrakis
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Kristie Macrakis, School of History, Technology, and Society
at Georgia Tech, will speak on "Winning the Secret Ink War" as part of
the HTS Monday Afternoon Seminar Series.Dr. Macrakis, is a historian of science and of espionage. Her research interests
include the politics of techno-science, science in
Nazi Germany and Post-War Germany, Cold War espionage including the East
German Ministry for State Security. She is currently writing a book on
the history of invisible ink from
ancient to modern times. Her books include: Surviving the Swastika (Oxford, 1993), Science under Socialism (Harvard, 1999), Seduced by Secrets (Cambridge,
2008 [A History Book Club featured selection, translations include German (Herbig, 2009) and Slovak (IKAR, 2010)] and East German Foreign Intelligence
(Routledge, 2009). She is the recipient of numerous awards
including grants from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the
National Science Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, and Fulbright.
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- Created By: LaDonna Bowen
- Created: 09/22/2011
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 10/07/2016
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