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Margaret McCool

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Margaret McCoo

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Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam ZZF
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

Email: margaret.mccool [at] zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

Since October 1, 2026
Ph.D. candidate at the ZZF Potsdam in Department V: Globalizations in a Divided World

Since 2023
Ph.D. Candidate in History at Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)

2026-2027
Gerda Henkel Foundation PhD Scholarship

2024-2025
Wilson Center Cold War Archives Research Fellow

2024-2025
DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship, affiliated with the ZZF Potsdam, Department I

2023
M.A. in History at Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)

2014-2018
B.A. in History and German at The George Washington University, (Washington, D.C.)

Publications

2026 Review of Joseph Kellner, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse. (Cornell University Press, 2025), H-Socialisms (July 2026): https://networks.hnet.org/group/reviews/20157742/mccool-kellner-spirit-socialism-culture-and-belief-sovietcollapse.

Current projects

East Germany’s Human Rights Campaign: Foreign Policy, Socialist Human Rights, and Legal Rhetoric in the Global Arena
PhD project
The project elucidates this tactical use of human rights rhetoric by the KMR and the East German state through the examination of multiple, overlapping historical trajectories during this period including decolonization, increasing global engagement by the GDR, and growing debate and output on human rights from the UN in the form of declarations and covenants.

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