Book

German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)
Recipient of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2016 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award and the American Astronautical Society’s 2015 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award. Honorable mention for the Deep South Book Prize of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama. Recipient of 2016 Auburn Author Award.

Articles

“’Operation Paperclip’ in Huntsville, Alabama,” Steven J. Dick, ed. Remembering the Space Age. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008, 89-107

“Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph: Negotiating the past in Huntsville, Alabama,” Schulze, Mathias, James M.Skidmore, David G. John, Grit Liebscher, and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach, eds. German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss. Waterloo, ON: WilfridLaurierUniversity Press, 2008, 443-454

“The New York Times and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Two Perspectives on the War in Iraq,” ed. Kurthen, Hermann; Antonio V. Menendez-Alarcon; and Stefan Immerfall. Safeguarding German-American Relations in the New Century: Understanding and Accepting Mutual Differences. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, 177-198

Forthcoming

“Creating a Preference System for the Highly Skilled” (journal article in progress)

“Setting the Stage to Bring in the Highly Skilled” for A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965, edited by Maddalena Marinari, Madeline Hsu, and Maria Cristina Garcia (in production at University of Illinois Press, expected publication Fall 2018)

“The Cold War and the Space Race” for The Handbook of the History of Technology, edited by W. Bernard Carlson (under contract with Oxford University Press, expected publication Spring 2020)

Review of Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond: Redefining Humanity’s Purpose in Space by Valerie Neal , forthcoming in Technology and Culture, July, 2018.

Review of Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State by Brian E. Crim, forthcoming in American Historical Review.

Book Reviews

Review of Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age by Jared Buss, German Studies Review 41, no. 2 (May 2018): 429-30.

Review of Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals by Mary Kathryn Barbier, Reading Religion, 2018 (online).

Review of The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men by Eric Lichtblau, The Journal of Hate Studies, vol 13 (2017): 191-193.

Review of Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960, by Matthew L. Downs,  Journal of Southern History, vol. 82, no. 2 (May 2016): 467-468.

“A Particularly American Dilemma? Religion and Technology in the Space Age,” review of To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957-1975, by Kendrick Oliver, Reviews In American History, vol. 43, no. 2 (2015): 378-383.

Review of Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun, by Bob Ward, in  Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3 (2011): 62-63.

Review of Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race by Wayne Biddle,  Reviews in History, June 2010 (online).

Review of Missiles for the Fatherland: Peeneműnde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile, by Michael B. Petersen,  Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4 (2009): 60-61.