2009 DAAD Prize Winner: Professor Mary Elise Sarotte

AICGS is pleased to announce Professor Mary Elise Sarotte as the recipient of this year's DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies, which recognizes recipients for outstanding academic work in their field. This year's prize was awarded for work in the field of Politics and International Relations. The DAAD Prize is awarded each year in one of AICGS' major fields of research - politics, economics, and the humanities. This is the fifteenth DAAD Prize to be awarded in a series started in 1994.

Professor Sarotte's latest book, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe will appear in November 2009 with Princeton University Press. Currently a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, she earned her BA at Harvard and her Ph.D. in History at Yale University. She teaches international relations in both historical and contemporary perspectives and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the past, Sarotte has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a White House Fellow, and an on-air analyst for CNN International and Sky Television. Before becoming a historian, she worked as a journalist in Europe for Time, The Economist, and Die Zeit. Her previous publications include Dealing with the Devil (University of North Carolina Press) and German Military Reform and European Security (Oxford University Press).

AICGS is grateful to the DAAD for its continued support of this award.