David A. Hackett is Associate Professor and former Chair of the History Department. He is editor and translator of The Buchenwald Report (Westview Press, 1995), which has been published in Germany as Der Buchenwald Report (Beck Verlag, 1996). He is currently completing a book titled Elusive Justice about war crimes trials of Buchenwald officers and guards, scheduled for publication next year. He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on German History, Twentieth Century Europe, the Holocaust, and World War II. He received a BA from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and a MA and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, under a Fulbright grant and has returned to Germany several times for research under Fulbright and DAAD grants.