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