Konrad Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited some forty books on modern German and European history. He has co-directed the Zentrum for Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam and co-founded the UNC Center for European Studies. His most recent book is Out of Ashes: A New ... Read moreHistory of Europe in the Twentieth Century. Harald Wenzel is Professor of Sociology at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of the Freie Universitat Berlin. His research focuses on sociological theory, the sociology of mass media, religion, and catastrophes. Publications include Die Abenteuer der Kommunikation: Echtzeitmassenmedien und der Handlungsraum der Hochmoderne and George Herbert Mead zur Einfuhrung. Karin Goihl is Academic Coordinator of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin. She holds an M.A. in North American Studies and Linguistics from the Freie Universitat Berlin and has served the Berlin Program since 1998. Show Less