Bernhard Streitwieser is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of German. Currently he also serves as the Coordinator of Research and Evaluation for the Gateway Science Workshop Program at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and collaborates with the Study Abroad Office on its student research program as well as the Grants Office on its fellowship selection committee.

Dr. Streitwieser received his B.A. in International Relations from the University of Virginia, his M.A. in Linguistics from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies from Columbia University. Recent publications include Integrative Traditionen in der Sekundarstufe? Portraits von vier ostberliner Schulen, a book on educational changes in post-unification Germany (2002); as well as the following book chapters: “Local reactions to imposed transfer: The case of eastern Berlin secondary school teachers,” in The global politics of educational borrowing and lending, ed. Gita Steiner-Khamsi (Teachers College Press, forthcoming); “‘Nicht vom Tisch wischen!’ Lehrerinnen und Lehrer aus Prenzlauer Berg über ihre Erfahrungen und Eindrücke vor und nach der politischen Wende 1989/1990,” in Schule zwischen gestern und morgen: Beiträge zur Schulgeschichte (Prenzlauer Berg Museum, 2002); “Memory and judgment: How East Berlin schools and teachers have been regarded in the post-reunification decade,” in Oxford studies in comparative education: education in Germany since unification, ed. David Phillips (Symposium Books, 2001); and “Some thoughts on post-Wende pedagogical adjustments,” in Reconstruction and transformation in Europe, ed. T. Mebrahtu, M. Crossley & D. Johnson (Symposium Books, 2000). He is also the translator of Michael Kubina’s “Moscow’s man in the SED politburo and the crisis in Poland in autumn of 1980,” (Cold War International History Project Bulletin,1998).

Dr. Streitwieser also co-edits the journal European Education: Issues and Studies and reviews manuscripts for Focus on German Studies and the Comparative Education Review. He is also a member of the German Studies Association. Between 1998-2000, he served as a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, where he was funded by a Federal Chancellor Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Bonn. During that period he also received the Distinguished Ph.D. Field Research Award from Teachers College, Columbia University, a Daimler-Benz Annual Research Award, a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and a grant from the Freie Universät zu Berlin/Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus. Most recently, Dr. Streitwieser collaborated with Professor Lys to win a research grant for undergraduate curricular innovation from the Hewlett Foundation for his course, Eastern Germany Since the Fall of the Wall.