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 Bernd
Widdig is Associate Director of the International Science and
Technology Initiative (MISTI) which has country programs in
China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and Singapore. He
is also Director of the MIT-Germany Program which he founded in
1997. The MIT-Germany Program is one of the largest program of
its kind in the US and works with about 30 of the most
successful German companies and research institutes.
Bernd Widdig studied Political Science, Sociology, and German
Literature at the University of Bonn and received his Ph.D. in
German Studies from Stanford University.
He has been teaching German Studies at MIT since 1989 and has
published widely on twentieth-century German culture. His most
recent book, Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany,
investigates the cultural dimensions and representations of the
German hyperinflation in the early Twenties.
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