.:CV                                                          Deutsche Version

    Professional Career

  • since Jan 2017 Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1288: Practices of Comparing: Ordering and changing the world
  • since Oct 2015 Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Diversity at Bielefeld University
  • 2013-2017 Vice Speaker of the BMBF Project "The Americas as Space of Entanglement(s)"
  • 2010-2015 Vice-/Dean of the faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology (Bielefeld University)
  • 2008 Full Professor of History (with particular focus on the History of 19th and 20th Century) Bielefeld University
  • 2002-2007 Assistant Professor, University of Hamburg
  • 2001 Teacher training in Chemnitz and Freiburg

    • Education

  • 2008 Habilitation at the University of Hamburg : "The Enterprise Stollwerck. A Microhistory of Globalization"
  • 2001 Dissertation at Bielefeld University: "Sentimental History: A Gender history of Historiography between Enlightenment and Historicism". Granted by the Förderverein of the institute for advanced study in the humanities/Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut/Essen)
  • 1995 First State Examination at the Free University of Berlin. Thesis: Henriette Fürth: A Social Biography
  • 1986-1995 Studies in History, Literature, Philosophy and Educational Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and at the Free University of Berlin
  • 1985 Studies in Spanish Language and Culture, University of Málaga, Spain

    • Academic Honors and Additional Information

  • 2017 Co-editor of the series Beiträge zur Geschichtskultur (Contributions to Historical Culture), Böhlau-Verlag
  • 2014 Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal Internationales Archiv der Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (IASL)
  • Nov 2014 Member of the Advisory Board of the Research Center Gotha of the University of Erfurt
  • 2011 Co-editor of the Journal "Neue Politische Literatur" (NPL)
  • 2011 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the international journal "Localities" in Busan/Korea
  • 2010 Member of the Board of the BGHS (Bielefeld University)
  • 2008 Co-editor of the series: Historische Einführungen, Campus-Verlag
  • 2007-2008 Senior Lecturer, University of Freiburg
  • 2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, London (GHIL)
  • 2004 Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
  • 2000 Scholarship of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen
  • 1999 Scholarship of the Ministry of Science in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1995-2000 Postgraduate student at the research training group "Sozialgeschichte von Gruppen, Schichten, Klassen und Eliten", (Bielefeld University)