Andreas Killen is Assistant Professor of History at the City College of New York. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University, where he specialized in modern cultural and urban history. He has been the holder of an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at UCLA, was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany, and has been the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation. His writing has appeared in Salon and the New York Times Magazine. His book Berlin Electropolis will be published later this year by the University of California Press.