Kristie Macrakis

Kristie Macrakis is Professor in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. An internationally recognized historian of technology and science, she received her PhD in the history of science from Harvard University. Her recent research focuses on the intersection of espionage history and history of technology, but she has also worked at the intersection of German history and history of science and technology and the politics of technology and science more generally.  She is the author of five single-authored books, one co-authored book and an edited volume.  

1) Surviving the Swastika (Oxford University Press).

2) Science under Socialism, (Harvard University Press).

3) Seduced by Secrets (Cambridge University Press).

4) East German Foreign Intelligence, ed.  (Routledge).

5) Prisoners, Lovers and Spies (Yale University Press).

6) Nothing is Beyond our Reach: America's Techno-Spy Empire (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming 2022).

7) Espionage (MIT Press, February 2023). 

Her books have been translated into German, Czech, Slovak, Estonian, Chinese and Italian.

She is also the author of over 30 articles as well as popular magazine articles, book reviews and op-eds. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Times, Nature, Science and American Scientist. She has made dozens of media appearances including interviews on the History Channel, Science Friday, NPR, and the Smithsonian Channel. In addition to scores of academic lectures, she has spoken at places like the Harvard Club, the International Spy Museum, the Carter Center and appeared on C-SPAN.

Macrakis’s awards include fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fulbright and the Wilson Center as well as grants from the National Science Foundation and the Humboldt Foundation.

She is currently a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2020-2023. For more information and to book a lecture, see: Link

www.kristiemacrakis.com

For "Technophilic Hubris and Espionage Style" article see: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/653104.