.:Curriculum vitae
.:Higher education
1978-82 Universities of Cologne, Munich and Maryland, College Park, USA1988 Ph.D. Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
1998 Habilitation Free University Berlin
.:Positions held
1988-89 Scientific Associate, German Historical Institute Paris1989-94 Assistant Professor, Free University Berlin
1998- Professor for Modern History and Gender History, Bielefeld University
.:Research grants, fellowships, honors etc.
Research grants during higher education (selection): Fulbright, German Academic Exchange Service, German Historical Institute Paris, German Research Foundation1996-97 Fellow, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2002 First place „Historical Book 2002” (H-Soz-Kult, section: 19th century) for Langeweile. Zum Umgang mit Zeit und Gefühlen vom späten 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert
2005-06 Visiting Professor German and European History, German Academic Exchange Service, University of Toronto, Canada
2010-11 Research Grant, Gerda Henkel Foundation
2020-21 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and German Historical Institute London
.:Service to the profession (selection)
2000-04 Lise-Meitner-Committee, Ministry of Research North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf2000-03 Organisation (with Wiebke Kolbe) of the Arbeitskreis für Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
2005-09 Third Party Funding and Leadership of the Research Training Group 1049, German Research Foundation, „Archives, Power, Knowledge. Organising, controlling, destroying knowledge from antiquity to the modern period”
2004-08 Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Centre 584, German Research Foundation, “The Political as Communicative Space in History”
2009-17 Scientific Advisory Board, German Historical Institute Paris
2011-15 Vice-President International, Bielefeld University
2015- Co-operation with the Departments of History Lund (Sweden) and York (England)
2017- Editorial Board German History