Douglas Selvage

Dr. Douglas Selvage is Project Director in the Education and Research Division of the Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Berlin. He oversees the historical research projects, "The GDR, the Ministry for State Security, and the CSCE Process, 1973-1989," and the "Ministry for State Security and MGB/KGB in the Soviet Bloc, 1950-1989: Structure, Contact and Limits of their Relations." He has published widely on the CSCE process, Polish-German relations under communism, and the history of the Soviet bloc. Previously, he also directed a grant project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate Warsaw Pact documents into English for the Parallel History Project (PHP) on Collective Security. From 2001-2006, he worked at the Historian's Office of the U.S. Department of State, where his publications included Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976: European Security, 1969-76, and a co-edited joint publication with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Soviet-American Relations: The Détente Years, 1969-1972. Selvage has been a frequent contributor to the publications of the PHP and the Cold War International History Project in Washington, DC.