washington state penitentiary

Robert G. Waite, Ph.D.
Muehlenstrasse 2a
13873 Berlin
Germany
Tel: 030-34657402
e-mail: bwaite9@hotmail.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010
Gasthistoriker, Gedenkstaette Deutscher Widerstand und Freie Universitaet Berlin
1988 - 2008
Senior Historian, Office of Special Investigations U.S. Department of Justice
1986 - 1987
Coordinator of Research and Internships, School of Social Sciences and Public
Affairs, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
Adjunct faculty member - Department of History, Boise State University
1985
Visiting Assistant Professor, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1981 - 1985
Historic Preservation and Museum Consultant
Adjunct Instructor, Idaho State University
1980 - 1981
Acting Director, Institute of the American West,
Sun Valley, Idaho
1979 - 1981
Architectural History Consultant, Idaho State Historical Society, Boise, Idaho
1978 - 1980
Instructor, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1976 - 1977
Instructor, University of Maryland, European Division
1974 - 1976
Research Fellow, Institute of Contemporary History, Munich, FRG
EDUCATION
1980 Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
dissertation topic: Juvenile Delinquency in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
1974 - 1976
University of Munich, F.R.G.
(DAAD Stipendium)
1973
M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
1971 - 1974
State University of New York at Binghamton
(Teaching Assistantship)
1972
B.A., State University College at Oneonta, New York
1969 - 1971
University of Würzburg, F.R.G.
(Kontakt Stipendium, Bavarian Ministry of the Interior)
1966 - 1969
State University College at Oneonta, N.Y.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2002
Recipient, U.S. Department of Justice Special Achievement Award
2000
Biographical Listing, Who‟s Who in America
1999
Biographical Listings, Directory of American Scholars, and Who‟s Who in the
South and Southwest
1999 - 2000
Member, German Historical Association
1993 - 2008
Member, Board of Directors, Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, Northwood
University, Midland, Michigan
1993 - 2008
Member, Berliner Gesellschaft für Faschismus- und Weltkriegsforschung e.v.
-31998
Recipient, U.S. Department of Justice, Assistant Attorney General‟s Award for
Special Initiative
1995
Recipient, U.S. Department of Justice Special Achievement Award
1991 - 1992
contributing editor, Encyclopedia of World War II - Europe (New York:
Garland Press, 1996)
1990
Recipient, U.S. Department of Justice Special Achievement Award
1987 - 2008
Contributor, ABC-Clio publications, Historical Abstracts and American Life and
Letters (abstracts of articles from the following publications: Bulletin des
Leo Baeck Instituts, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Journal of
Contemporary History, Forest and Conservation History, Geschichte und
Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft, 1999:
Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, and
SozialGeschichte. 1037 abstracts completed and published)
1986
Fellow, Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, Midland, Michigan
1985 - 1987
Member, Board of Directors, Sawtooth Interpretative Association, Stanley, Idaho
1985 - 1987
Member, Board of Directors, Idaho Historic Preservation Council, Boise, Idaho
1984 - 1985
Director, The Ezra Pound Centennial Project, Hailey, Idaho
1982
Project Consultant, Western Governors' Conference, Seattle, Washington
1980 - 1981
Director, The American West: Colonies in Revolt Project, Sun Valley, Idaho
1981
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities,
Division of Research Programs
1981
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of State Programs
1980
Biographical Listing, Outstanding Young Men of America
1977
Panelist, National Archives film series "Film in Nazi Germany:
Propaganda or Art?" Washington, D.C.
-4PUBLICATIONS
books
with John Delaney Williams and Gregory Gordon, editors, John F. Kennedy: History, Memory,
Legacy (Grand Forks, North Dakota: University of North Dakota, 2010) (e-book:
www.und.edu/JFKConference)
“Everyone Has to Eat”: Joe Albertson and His Supermarket Empire (Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho
State University Oral History Project, 2007)
Idaho and the Federal Government: A Guide to Idaho Records in the National Archives
(Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State University Oral History Project, 2003)
“I Just Went to Work”: Jack Simplot and His Business Empire (Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State
University Oral History Project, 1995)
editor, with Judith O'Dell, Composed Order: The Architecture of Alden B.Dow. The
Conference Proceedings (Midland, Michigan: The Alden B. Dow Creativity Center,
1990)
with Henry Whiting, Teater's Knoll: Frank Lloyd Wright's Idaho Legacy (Midland, Michigan:
Northwood Institute Press, 1987)
editor, with Hank Nuwer and Jenine Howard, Rendezvous at the Ezra Pound Centennial
Conference (Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State University Press, 1987)
editor, Rendezvous With Eight Contemporary Writers (special issue of Rendezvous, January,
1986)
booklets
“A Woman in the Gold Fields of Idaho: Viola Lamb and the Thunder Mountain Gold Rush of
1902,” The Payette National Forest, 1996
“Mules, Mountains, and Movies: Zane Grey and Thunder Mountain,” The Payette National
Forest, 1996
“To the Idaho Klondike: The Thunder Mountain Gold Rush, 1902-1910,” The Payette National
Forest, 1994
“Trails, Trappers, Trains and Travelers: The Economic Development of South Bannock County
as Influenced by Transportation,” South Bannock County Historical Center, 1983
-5-
“Walking Tour of Lava Hot Springs,” South Bannock County Historical Center, 1979
articles
“Teenage Violent Crime in Nazi Germany,” in Richard Wetzell, editor, Crime and Criminal
Justice in Modern Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming).
“‟Ish bin ein Baerleener.‟ JFK‟s June 26, 1963 Visit to Berlin: The Views from East Germany,”
Journal of Contemporary History (forthcoming).
“JFK, Berlin and the Berlin Crises,” in John Delaney, et al., editors John F. Kennedy: History,
Memory, Legacy (Grand Forks, North Dakota: University of North Dakota, 2009),
pp. 116-134.
“Mauthausen Main Camp, pp. 900-903;” “Dippoldsau,” p. 911; “Ebensee,” pp. 911-913;
“Grossramen,” pp. 95-917; “Gusen,” pp. 919-921; and “Weyr,” p. 954; in Geoffrey P.
Megargee, editor, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945 Volume I, Part B
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009).
“Die amerikanischen Medien, die Kriegsverbrecherprozesse in Deutschland und die öffentliche
Wahrnehmung des Holocaust in den USA 1943-1955,” in Jürgen Matthäus and KlausMichel Maulmann, editors, Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Holocaust als Geschichte und
Gegenward (Wiesbaden: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006), pp. 223-240.
“„Eine Sonderstellung unter den Straftaten‟: die Verfolgung der Abtreibung im Dritten Reich,” in
Alfred Gottwaldt, Norbert Kampe and Peter Klein, eds. NS-Gewaltherrschaft. Beiträge
zur historischen Forschung und juristischen Aufarbeitung (Berlin: Edition Hentrich,
2005), pp. 104-117.
“USA: Deutschland im öffentlichen Bewusstsein,” in Kurt Pätzold and Erika Schwarz, editors,
Europa vor dem Abgrund: Das Jahr 1935 (Cologne: PapyRossa Verlag, 2005), pp. 100117.
“Some Aspects of Anti-German Sentiment in Latvia, 1941-1944," in
Latvia Under German Occupation 1941-1945 (Riga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds,
2004), pp. 154-176.
“Violent Crime on the Western Frontier: The Experience of the Idaho Territory, 1863-1890,” in
Louis A. Knafla, editor, Violent Crime in North America (London: Praeger, 2003),
pp. 53-74.
“Returning Jewish Cultural Property: The Handling of Books Looted by the Nazis in the
-6American Zone of Occupation, 1945-48,” Libraries & Culture 37(summer 2002),
pp. 213-228.
“The United States and the Soviet Occupation of Latvia, 1940-1941,” in Deportation of 14 June
1941: Crime against Humanity (Riga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds, 2002), pp. 103119.
“West German Courts and the Holocaust in Latvia,” in The Issues of the Holocaust Research in
Latvia (Riga: Latvijas vēstures institūta apgāds, 2001), pp. 61-71.
“„Reliable Local Residents‟: Collaboration in Latvia, 1941-1945,” in Latvia in World War II
(Riga: Institute of History of Latvia, 2000), pp. 115-144.
“Rassismus und Antisemitismus in Schriften deutscher Kriminologen, 1933-1945,” in Manfred
Weißbecker and Reinhard Kühnl, editors, Rassismus, Faschismus, Antifaschismus:
Forschungen und Betrachtungen Gewidmet Kurt Pätzold zum 70. Geburtstag (Cologne:
PapyRossa Verlags, 2000), pp. 46-62.
“Dow, Alden B.,” in Dizionario Dell‟ Architettura del XX Secolo (Torino: Umberto Allemandi
& C., 2000), Volume 2, p. 236.
“„Schlau, gewaltbereit, treu...‟,Rudolf Heß: Sein Bild in den U.S.A.,” in Rudolf Heß: Der Mann
an Hitlers Seite, Kurt Pätzold and Manfred Weißbecker (Leipzig: Militze Verlag, 1999),
pp. 410-434.
“Archival Report: The Alden B. Dow Archives,” Michigan Historical Review 24(Fall 1998),
pp. 128-134.
“Berlin, Occupation of,” pp. 27-28; “Bern Incident,” p. 28; “Enabling Act,” p. 64; “Final
Solution,” pp. 66-68; “Germany, Occupation of,” pp. 71-72; “Isolationism,” pp. 95-96;
“Mein Kampf,” pp. 114-115; “Neutral Countries,” pp 124-126; “Borman, Martin,” pp.
236-238; “Himmler, Heinrich,” pp. 343-344; “Kaltenbrunner, Ernst,” pp. 365-366;
“Hitler Youth,” pp. 688-689; “NSDAP,” p. 706-708; “Infantry Weapons, German,” pp.
1008-1011; “Infantry Weapons, Soviet,” pp. 1013-1015; “Missles, Guided,” pp. 10541057; “Tanks, British,” pp. 1107-1109; “Tanks, German,” pp. 1111-1114; “Tanks,
Soviet,” pp. 1115-1117; “Tanks, United States,” pp. 1119-1122; “Mine Warfare, Land,”
pp. 1231-1232; “Night Operations, Land,” pp. 1241-1242; “Winter Operations” pp. 12961298; “Berlin (16 April - 2 May 1945),” pp. 1391-1393; “Britain, Air Campaign (13
August - 12 October 1940,” pp. 1405-1409; “Diver, Operation (June 1944 - March
1945),” pp. 1449-1450; “Haifisch, Operation (April - August 1941), pp. 1530-1531;
“Hamburg Air Raids (24 - 30 July 1943), pp. 1531-1532; “Italy, Southern,” pp. 15391540; “Norway (9 April - 9 June 1940),” pp. 1615-1618; “Regensburg Air Raid (17
August 1943),” pp. 1639-1640; “Schweinfurt Air Raid (14 October 1943),” pp. 1673-
-71674; and “Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939),” pp. 1697-1700 in World War II in Europe:
An Encyclopedia, edited by David T. Zabecki(New York: Garland Press, 1999).
“Teenage Sexuality in Nazi Germany,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 8(January 1998),
pp. 434-476.
“The German Women's League in Riga, 1905-1939: An Ethnic Women's Organization in the
Baltic States,” Journal of Baltic Studies 28(Winter 1997), pp. 339-356.
“Level III: the Mauthausen Concentration Camp,” Bulletin (Berliner Gesellschaft für
Faschismus- und Weltkriegsforschung e.V.), pp. 68-92.
“To the Idaho Klondike, the Thunder Mountain Gold Rush,” Journal of the West,35(October
1996), pp. 65-73.
“A Woman in the Gold Fields of Idaho: Viola Lamb and the Thunder Mountain Gold Rush of
1902,” Idaho Yesterdays 39(Winter 1996), pp. 11-17.
“Zane Grey and Thunder Mountain,” Idaho Yesterdays 39(Winter 1996), pp. 18-23.
“Baltic States,” “Hungary, revolution in (1918-1919),” and “Zionism,” in World War I: An
Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996), pp. 112-113, 349-350, and
770-771.
“Kollaboration und deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Lettland 1941-1945,” in Europa unterm
Hakenkreuz: Okkupation und Kollaboration (1938-1945), edited by Werner Röhr
(Berlin: Hüthig Verlagsgemeinschaft, 1994), pp. 217-238.
“It's Like Seeing an Old Friend Again: Two Hossiers Work on the Restoration of the Library of
Congress,” Arts Indiana 16(March 1994), p. 18.
“Jane Alexander Knows that Indiana Exists. Interview,” Arts Indiana 16(May 1994), p. 19
“Law Enforcement and Crime in America: The View from Germany, 1920-1940,” Criminal
Justice History 13(1992), pp. 191-216.
“The Beginnings of the Women Club Movement in Idaho,” Idaho Yesterdays (summer, 1992),
pp. 19-23.
“Over the Ranges to the Golden Gate: Tourist Guides to the West, 1880 - 1920,” Journal of the
West 31(April, 1992), pp. 103-113.
-8“From Penitentiary to Reformatory: Alexander Maconochie, Walter Crofton, Zebulon Brockway
and the Opening of the Elmira Reformatory,” Criminal Justice History 12(1991), pp. 85106.
“Air Force Law Review,” pp. 240-241; “Armed Forces Journal International,” pp. 38-46; “Army
Lawyer,” p. 247; “Army Navy Air Force Register,” pp. 63-67; “Journal of Political and
Military Sociology,” p. 262; “Military Law Review,” pp. 266-267; “Naval Law Review,”
pp. 268-269; “Navy League Journal,” pp. 173-175; “Navy Times,” pp. 175-178;
“Parameters: Journal of the U.S. Army War College,” pp. 187-189; “Sea Power,” pp.
196-198; and “Seven Seas,” pp. 199-201 in Military Periodicals: US & Selected
International Journals, edited by Michael E. Unsworth (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1990).
“Boston,” pp. 31-34 and “Idaho Yesterdays,” pp. 94-96, with Hank Nuwer, in Regional Interest
Magazines of the United States, edited by Sam G. Riley (Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1990).
“Residences,” in Composed Order: The Architecture of Alden B. Dow (Midland, Michigan:
Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, 1990), pp. 54-72.
“Criminals,” pp. 134-135; “Grant, Zilpah,” pp. 239-240; “Law Enforcement,” pp. 317-318;
“Leonard, Clara Temple,” pp. 324-325; “Linden Hall Seminary,” p. 330; “Mary Baldwin
School,” p. 358; “Moravian Seminary for Young Females,” pp. 386-387; “Parker,
Bonnie,” pp. 386-387; “Prison Reform,” pp. 457-458; “Willard, Emma Hart,” pp. 611612; “Women's Police Forces,” pp. 662-663; and “Women's Prisons,” p. 690 in
Handbook of American Women's History, edited by Angel Howard Zophy (New York:
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990).
“Economic Crisis, Political Change and Crime: Juvenile Delinquency in Germany, 1870-1945,”
in The History of Juvenile Delinquency, edited by Albert G. Hess, Volume I (Aalen,
FRG: Scientia Verlag, 1991), pp. 347-384.
“Music, Madness and Method. Part II,” in Rendezvousing With Contemporary Writers, edited
by Hank Nuwer (Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State University Press, 1988), pp. ii-iii.
“'A Spot of Interest to Humanity': Hagerman's Archie Teater Studio, Frank Lloyd Wright,
Architect,” Idaho Yesterdays 30(winter, 1987), pp. 18-30.
“The History of the Hunting Tavern, Andes, New York,” in Historic Structure Report (Albany,
New York: Mendel, Mesick, Cohen, Waite, Hall Architects, 1987), pp. 1-28.
“Ezra Pound: One Hundred Years Later,” in Rendezvous at the Ezra Pound Centennial
Conference (Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State University Press, 1987), pp. i-iii.
-9“The History of the Putnam County Court House,” in Historic Structure Report (Albany, New
York: Mendel, Mesick, Cohen, Waite, Hall Architects, 1986), pp. 1-47.
“Idahoan Restores Wright's Other Studio,” Preservation News (May 1986), pp. 12-13.
“The Ezra Pound Centennial Conference in Hailey, Idaho,” Paideuma 15 (May 1986), pp. 134135.
“Governments of the People,” in The History of the Hudson Mohawk Gateway (Northridge,
California: Windsor Publications, 1985), pp. 67-73.
“Necessary to Isolate the Female Prisoners: Women Convicts and the Women's Ward at the Old
Idaho Penitentiary,” Idaho Yesterdays 29(fall, 1985), pp. 2-12.
“To the New Eldorado: The History of Thunder Mountain, Idaho,” in Thunder Mountain Road
Project Cultural Resource Investigation Boise, Idaho: James M. Montgomery,
Consulting Engineers, Inc., 1984), pp. 1-59.
“The Twentieth Century Mine at Thunder Mountain, 1901-1905,” in Thunder Mountain Road
Project, Supplement (Boise, Idaho: James M. Montgomery, Consulting Engineers, Inc.,
1984), pp. 1-4.
“The Ethnic Experience in Idaho,” Snake River Echoes (spring, 1982), pp. 90-92.
“Cyprus Comes to Challis: Planning for a Boom,” in The Revolt of the American Colonies (Sun
Valley, Idaho: Institute of the American West, 1982), pp. 263-267.
“Challis: Planning for a Boom,” “The West: Who Governs?”, “The Western Past: A Bitter
Romance,” “Colonies Within Colonies,” “The West: Who Will Govern?”, in The
American West: Colonies in Revolt (Sun Valley, Idaho: The Institute of the American
West, 1981), pp. 1-5.
film scripts/video tape scripts
“History of the Old Idaho Penitentiary” (1987)
“Daily Life in the Old Idaho Penitentiary” (1987)
“Tour of the Old Idaho Penitentiary” (1987)
“Hard Time: Solitary Confinement in the Old Idaho Penitentiary” (1987)
-10“The Women's Ward at the Old Idaho Penitentiary” (1987)
“Knee Braces, Dormers, and Turrets: The Architecture of Mountain Home, Idaho” (1984)
“Schadscale, Sagebrush, and Sheep: The Changing Patterns of Grazing and Agriculture in the
Mountain Home Area” (1984)
“Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail” (1981)
“The Idaho State Correctional Institution” (1980)
book reviews
Jürgen Lillteicher, Raub, Recht und Restitution: Die Rückerstattung jüdischen Eigentums in der
frühen Bundesrepublik in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 23(Spring 2009), pp. 110-112.
Michael J. Kurtz, America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europes
Cultural Treasures, in Holocaust and Geoncide Studies 22(Spring 2008), pp. 142-144.
Anita Kugler, Scherwitz: Der jüdische SS-Offizier, in Holocaust and Genocie Studies 20(2006),
pp. 508-510.
David A. White, editor, News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865. Vol. 8: Gold Seekers, Other
Areas, 1858-1865, Cumulative Index for the Series, in Journal of the West 42(fall 2003),
p. 100.
John D. McDermott, Gold Rush: The Black Hills Story, in Journal of the West 42(summer
2003), p. 91.
John Boessenecker, Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters,
Lawmen, and Vigilantes, in Journal of the West 40(summer 2001), p. 90.
Joel Jacobsen, Such Men Like Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Revisited, in Western
Historical Quarterly 26(Summer 1995), pp. 223-224.
Mark S. Foster, Henry M. Porter: Rocky Mountain Empire Builder, in Western Historical
Quarterly 23(May 1992), pp. 251-252.
-11Archival Research
research conducted in the following archives:
United States:
National Archives, Washington D.C. and College Park, Maryland
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives
Special Collections, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Manuscript Reading Room, Library of Congress
Idaho State Historical Archives, Boise, Idaho
Idaho State Penitentiary Archives, Boise, Idaho
Suffolk University Archives, Boston, Massachusetts
Alden B. Dow Archives, Midland, Michigan
Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy, New York
Dutchess County Historical Society, Poughkeepsie, New York
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Chester County Archives, West Chester, Pennsylvania
Germany:
Landesarchiv Berlin
Berlin Document Center
Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Bundesarchiv Lichter-Felde (Berlin)
WASt, Wehrmacht Auskunftsstelle, Berlin
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin
Staatsanwaltschaft Cologne
Bundesarchiv-Zwischenarchiv Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten
Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt
Staatsarchiv Detmold
Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf
Staatsarchiv Freiburg
Staatsanwaltschaft Hamburg
Niedersächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Hannover
Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz
Bundesarchiv Koblenz
Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltung, Ludwigsburg
Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich
Stadtarchiv Munich
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Munich
Allgemeines Staatsarchiv Munich
Landesarchiv Saarland, Saabrücken
Ravensbruck Concentration Memorial Site, Sachsenhausen
-12Landesarchiv Speyer
Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Weimar
Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden
Staatsarchiv Würzburg
Slovakia:
State Archive Bratislava
Slovak Historic Military Archive, Trnava
State Archive Poprad
Latvia:
Latvian State Archive, Riga,
Latvian National Archive, Riga
Archive of the former KGB, Riga