About me:

I specialise in modern European history - with an emphasis on East Central Europe, France and Germany. I hold a PhD in history from the European University Institute in Florence (2017) and have been an Assistant Professor of Public History at Bielefeld University since 2021, following positions at the Max Weber Centre in Erfurt, the Hannah Arendt Institute in Dresden and the LMU Munich. I am particularly interested in the transfer processes within Eastern Europe as well as between this region and Western Europe - especially Germany and France. My research focuses on the social history of the upheavals around 1945 and 1989/1991, the transnational history of the social sciences and humanities since the late 19th century, and interactions between politics, society and memory.

In my current project "Mnemonic Populism in Contemporary Europe", funded by the VW Foundation, I investigate the role of history in right-wing populism in a comparative perspective.

Currently, I teach the following courses: EKVV

I share my publications here: Academia.edu

I am particularly interested in supervising BA-, MA- and PhD students in topics related to European history, transnational history and public history - including memory studies, heritage studies and museum studies.