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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
Berlin Prize Fellow - Class of Fall 1998 and Class of Spring 1999
Brian Ladd is an urban historian. His 1997 book The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in Urban Landscape received international attention. He is also the author of The Companion Guide to Berlin (2004) and Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age (2008).