Personal & Mission Statement
Elizabeth Harrington Lambert, Ph.D. leads the Fellowships Team at Vanderbilt University. A third-culture kid and adult, Elizabeth has lived and studied in Germany, Austria and Südtirol. Elizabeth grew up in a family of educators and learned about her family’s German and Swiss heritage from her historian-genealogist grandfather.
This exposure to German language, history and culture—particularly music—inspired her to pursue a high school exchange in Südtirol and ultimately to pursue a doctorate in German history. She wrote her dissertation, “Between Bauhaus and Buchenwald: Landscape and Memory in Postwar Weimar” as a Fulbrighter to Bauhaus-Universität-Weimar, a DAAD Scholar to the Freie Universität Berlin and Universität Leipzig and as an Erasmus Fellow to the Technische Universität Dresden. Her research explores intersections of public history, architectural and urban studies and war and society in the transatlantic sphere with a focus on East Germany and post-Wende memory.
Elizabeth is also an enthusiastic supporter of transatlantic exchange and has served as a DAAD Research Ambassador since 2012. She looks forward to contributing her background and training to support GAHF projects related to history and memory, academic exchange and educational outreach.