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Kerstin Lange is a freelance writer and journalist based in Vermont. She holds an M.A. in anthropology and an M.S. in ecology. Lange has worked with biological anthropologists among the nomadic Turkana in northwest Kenya and bicycled Germany’s 900-mile-long Green Belt. Her book Phantom Border: A Personal Reconnaissance of Contemporary Germany (Ibidem Press/Columbia University Press, 2024) examines the societal and ecological echoes of her home country’s Cold War division.

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We Were the People: Voices from East Germany's Revolutionary Autumn of 1989

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