Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow and Editor at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and did his graduate work in modern European history at Columbia University (M.A.) and Stanford University (Ph.D.). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at the University of Maryland at College Park, Georgetown University, and the Catholic University of America. His research focuses on the intersection of law, science, and politics in modern Germany. His publications include: Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (2000), Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (edited, 2013), Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980 (co-edited, 2012), and Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective (co-edited, 2006).