{"59196":{"#nid":"59196","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Macrakis Explores Nazi Science, Spies, Invisible Ink","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristie Macrakis (PhD Harvard) joined Ivan Allen College as a Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Science in January 2009.  She studies and teaches the history of science, espionage, and, this fall, will teach a class on the history of science under the Nazis.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMacrakis became interested in Nazi science while researching her dissertation in Berlin, Germany, which culminated in her first book \u003Cem\u003ESurviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany \u003C\/em\u003E(Oxford University Press). Her second book was on science in communist East Germany, \u003Cem\u003EScience Under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective \u003C\/em\u003E(Harvard University Press). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMacrakis\u0027 most recent book \u003Cem\u003ESeduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi\u0027s Spy-Tech World \u003C\/em\u003E(Cambridge University Press) focuses on technology in the service of espionage and the reverse of that, espionage in the service of technology.  The book is a groundbreaking study on the technical methods of one of the most feared and effective spy agencies in history, the East German Stasi.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThough it makes for riveting research and reading, Macrakis finds espionage wasteful.  \u0022My own view from studying history since World War II and the explosion of spy bureaucracies is that it has become a part of modern statecraft with very small return.\u0022    Macrakis has co-edited another book, \u003Cem\u003EEast German Foreign Intelligence: Myth, Reality and Controversy \u003C\/em\u003E(Routledge) which publishes this month.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMacrakis has received research grants and awards from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the National Science Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, as well as a Fulbright grant. Her current work delves into material so cloaked in secrecy that she literally can\u0027t see what she\u0027s studying - the history of invisible ink from ancient to modern times. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I started on this subject matter,\u0022  says Macrakis, \u0022I didn\u0027t anticipate that it would be so intriguing, but invisible ink paradigmatically mirrors espionage.  It\u0027s quite elusive as you can imagine:  I keep coming across blank pages.\u0022   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf invisible ink sounds irrelevant in the electronic age, consider that the CIA will not release formulas for it.  Macrakis is currently searching for a chemist interested in reproducing invisible ink.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Kristie Macrakis (PhD Harvard) joined Ivan Allen College as a Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Science in January 2009.  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