Our research encompasses the history of modern Europe and especially modern Germany, with a particular focus on the history of Nazi Germany, World War II and the Holocaust, Digital History, and the History of the Everyday.

Brown University, Providence, USA

PhD in History, 2013 (Thesis “Hitler’s Happy People: Kraft durch Freude’s Everyday Production of Joy in the Third Reich; Supervisor: Omer Bartov) 

MA in History, 2007

Graduate Studies in German Studies (Exchange Student), 2004–2006

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany 

Undergraduate and Graduate Studies (Magister Artium Program), 2001–2006 (Major: Modern and Contemporary History; Minors: European Ethnology and Modern German Literature) 

Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen, Germany

Studium Generale, 2000–2001 (Competitive one-year general studies program of interdisciplinary and propaedeutic training with an emphasis on humanities/social sciences.) 

Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Abitur, 2000 (Final grade: 1.4 (=excellent); focus on History and German)

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

University Lecturer in Contemporary History, September 2016 to present

Universität Bremen, Germany

Universitätslektor, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, September 2013–August 2016

Harvard University, USA

College Fellow/Lecturer on History, History Department, August 2012–June 2013

Brown University, USA 

Instructor, Pre-College Summer Program, 2009–2013