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  • Habilitation at Bielefeld University in January 2017 (venia legendi for modern and contemporary history)
  • Visiting lecturer at the University of Bologna in March 2016
  • Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the LMU Munich in February and March 2015
  • September 2014: Back as Lecturer at Bielefeld University
  • December 2013: Guest lecturer at Peking University/China
  • Since 2013: Principal Investigator in the Research project “The History of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith between 1933 and 1938” (funded by the Stiftung Mercator, Duisburg)
  • 2011-2014: DAAD Francis L. Carsten Lecturer in Modern German History at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
  • 2009-2012: Member of the "Junges Kolleg" of the Nordrhein-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts
  • 2009: „Geisteswissenschaften International“ award for the book Horst Wessel. Tod und Verklärung eines Nationalsozialisten (English translation published in 2013 under the title: The Making of a Nazi Hero. The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel, London: I.B.Tauris)
  • Since October 2007: Lecturer at Bielefeld University, History Department, Research unit „History of Modern Societies“ (on leave from 2011-2014)
  • October 2006-September 2007: Lecturer (stand-in) at Bielefeld University, History Department, Research unit „History of Modern Societies“ (led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp)
  • October 2006: Franz Steiner Price for Transatlantic History (for the dissertation)
  • June 2006: PhD dissertation at Humboldt University Berlin: „A popular expression of individuality". Kriminalität, Justiz und Gesellschaft in der Gerichtsberichterstattung von Tageszeitungen in Berlin, Paris und Chicago, 1919-1933
  • 2003-2006: PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hardtwig at the Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften at Humboldt University Berlin, funded by a scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Visiting researcher and fellowships at the University of Chicago, the German Historical Institute Washington DC and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris
  • 2003: Erhard Höpfner Study Price (for the MA thesis)
  • Summer 2002: Master of Arts at the Free University Berlin
  • From 1996-2002, I studies history, literary studies and law at the universities of Potsdam (Germany), Paul Valéry/Montpellier (France) and at the Free University Berlin