Eli Rubin is an Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He received his PhD in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 2005 his dissertation was awarded the Fritz Stern Prize for the best dissertation in German History by the Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His first monograph, Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic was published in 2008. From 2007-2009 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship in Germany as a fellow of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam.
* 1: Planning Utopia: The Housing Program
Berlin
and Marzahn * 2: Moonscape on the Mark: Socialism
Modernity and the Construction of a New World * 3: Rainbows and Communism: Rupture in the Material
Sensory and Mnemonic Worlds of Marzahn's New Residents * 4: Growing With Marzahn: Childhood
Community
and the Space of Socialism's Future * 5: Plattenbau Panopticon: The Stasi
Surveillance
and Plattensiedlungen
