Keith R. Allen
scientific Assistant
Economics, Modern History
The Institute for Contemporary History
Germany
Biography
1997/98 Research associate of the Swiss Bergier Commission, Zurich, 1998-2001 Department head at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, 2002 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, Stuttgart, 2003/04 Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, 2005-2013 Senior Consultant of History Associates Incorporated, Washington, 2013-2014 Curator of the exhibition "Routes of Liberation. European Legacies of the Second World War ", Brussels, 2014-2017 Research Assistant at the Historical Institute of JLU-Giessen, Winter 2017 Visiting Research Scholar, Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia, since June 2017 Research Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History, Berlin Research Unit.
Research Interest
Economic, social and migration history, memorabilia of the Second World War and the Cold War, historical research on internal security
Publications
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"Wall Remnants, Holocaust Memorials, and Prussian Heritage. Reflections on Wall Commemoration in Berlin. "In: Perspectives. The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Profession, November 2014.
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"Restricting Knowledge. "In: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 70 (June 2017).
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"Questioning Migrants in Cold War Germany: Legacies of the Joint Interrogation Centers" in: Wirsching, Andreas et. al. (Eds.) Migration, Refugees and Asylum. Concepts, Actors, Practices since the Second World War in Global Perspective Berlin / Boston 2017.
