Education
2016 Ph.D., Anglo-American History, Anglo-American Department, School of History, University of Cologne, Germany.
2012 M.A., North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
2008 B.A., International Development Studies and History, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Academic Positions
2021 – 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1199, Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition, Leipzig University, Germany.
2019 – 2020 Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History, German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. and Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, Washington, D.C. and Fairfax, VA, USA.
2018 – 2019 Part-time Lecturer, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2016 – 2018 Adjunct Professor (Lehrbeauftragter), Department of Social Work, Media and Culture, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Merseburg, Germany.
2010 – 2012 Research Assistant, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”, Project C4: “White Settlers in Contact with Indigenous Societies in North America (1789-1851) and Australia (1788-1850),” Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Awards
2023 Joel Palmer Award, Oregon Historical Quarterly.
2020 Offermann-Hergarten-Prize, University of Cologne.
Teaching Experience
Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University
2022 – 2023 The French and United States Globalization Project. [graduate course]
Department of History, University of Lucerne
2019 United States Cultural and Social History in the Long 1960s. [undergraduate survey]
Department of English, University of Copenhagen
2018 United States Cultural and Social History in the 1960s and 1970s. [undergraduate survey]
2018 – 2019 The English-Speaking World Before 1900. [undergraduate survey]
2018 – 2019 The English-Speaking World Since 1900. [undergraduate survey]
Department of Social Work, Media and Culture, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences
2016 – 2017 History of Social Policy in the United States and Europe. [undergraduate survey]
2016 – 2018 Civil Rights and Inequality in the United States. [undergraduate survey]
John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin
2010 – 2012 Teaching Assistant to Dr. Eva Bischoff for courses on Native American and Early United States History.
Other Training
2019 – 2020 Web programing and computational history, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University.
2019 University pedagogy, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Copenhagen.
Other Professional Skills
2015 – Geographic analysis and visualization in QGIS, ArcGIS, and Leaflet.
Languages
English (fluent)
German (native speaker)
Danish (native speaker)
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