Further Activities
- 2015: Visiting professorship at the University of Notre Dame (October-November)
- Since 2005: Coordinator of the cooperation with the Rostov State Economic University, Russia
- 2004-2012: Chair of the research project “Petitions as Form and Media of Political Communication in Russia” as part of Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 584), “The Political as Communicative Space in History
- 2004 Visiting Lecturer at Mongolian State University of Education
- Since 2002: Coordinator of the cooperation with Moscow State Pedagogical University
- 1999-2003: German contact person, European Community Tempus (Tacis) project “EURASIA”, Uzbek partner: State University of Tashkent
- Since 1999: Coordinator of the cooperation with the University of Business and New Technologies, Yaroslavl'
- 1996-1998: Dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Bielefeld
- Since 1996: Coordinator of the cooperation with the Mongolian State University of Education, Ulan Bator
- Since 1994: Vice chair/since 2011 chair of the Wolfgang-Schüler-Institute for International Management Studies
- 1994-2010 Vice chair, German “Master of Business Administration” at the Academy of the National Economy with the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow
- Since 1994: Coordinator of the cooperation with the State Pedagogical State University, Yaroslavl’
- 1993-2007: Coordinator of the interdisciplinary minor “Eastern European Studies”, University of Bielefeld
- 1993-1996: Coordinator of the research project “Institutions in the Transformation Process of Agriculture: The Historical Experiences of Russia and Germany in Relation to Current Problems”; cooperation with the Agrarian Institute of the Russian Academy of Agrarian Science, Moscow
- 1993-1997: Coordinator of the research project “Urban Self-Administration and pre-1914 Bourgeois Elites: Russia and Germany in Comparison”; cooperation with the Historical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and the Historical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Memberships
- Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Bielefeld School for Historical Research
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde
- Verband Deutscher Historiker
- Verband der Osteuropahistoriker