Meredith Hindley

Meredith Hindley is an adjunct professor in the History Department at American University . She is currently turning her dissertation, Blockade before Bread: The Allies and Relief for Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1939-1945, into a book. Her publications include "Constructing Allied Humanitarian Policy," in David Cesarini and Paul Levine, eds., Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaulation (London: Frank Cass, 2002); "The Strategy of Rescue and Relief: The Use of OSS Intelligence by the War Refugee Board in Sweden, 1944-45," Intelligence and National Security (12:3); and "Negotiating the Boundary of Unconditional Surrender: The War Refugee Board in Sweden and Nazi Proposals to Ransom Jews, 1944-45," Holocaust and Genocide Studies (10:1). She has given papers at conferences in the United States, Canada, Britain, Sweden, and Germany. She managed an award-winning website for a federal government cultural agency for more than five years, before becoming the agency's senior writer. She received her Ph.D. from American University.