Bryan Hart joined the German Historical Institute Washington, DC, in 2007 after completing his M.A. in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to working at the GHI, Bryan was a research assistant at the Atlantic Council of the United States, where he worked closely with the Council’s executive director on a book project. He has also interned at the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Science, working within the coordination team of the European Migration Network, a European Commission-sponsored research network on migration. Bryan manages the website for the Immigrant Entrepreneurship project.

William J. Hausman is Chancellor Professor of Economics at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.  He is founding editor (2000-04) of Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History and past President of the Business History Conference (2006-07). He has written extensively on energy history and published, with Mira Wilkins and Peter Hertner, Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). He contributed a paper on entrepreneurship in the United States to  Youssef Cassis and Ionanna Minoglou, eds., Country Studies in Entrepreneurship (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

William J. Hausman is Chancellor Professor of Economics at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.  He is founding editor (2000-04) of Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History and past President of the Business History Conference (2006-07). He has written extensively on energy history and published, with Mira Wilkins and Peter Hertner, Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). He contributed a paper on entrepreneurship in the United States to  Youssef Cassis and Ionanna Minoglou, eds., Country Studies in Entrepreneurship (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Giles Hoyt is Professor Emeritus of German and Philanthropic Studies and Director Emeritus of the Max Kade German-American Research and Resource Center, Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis. He earned his B.A. from State University of New York at Binghamton and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. His research interests include early modern German literature and language, German cultural studies, and German-American studies.