text: Chosen under the auspices of the center 's director , historian Peter Gay , the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman , at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution ; technology historian Gregory Dreicer , who will study the architecture of racial segregation ; and historian Marion Kaplan , who studies the daily life of Jews in Nazi Germany .
  
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  Peter Gay is the center 's director and therefore chose the fellows based on his personal preferences .