Degrees

• BA (Hons) Cambridge 1997
• MA Cambridge 1998
• Ph.D. Cambridge 2003

Research Area

• Modern European history
• Political justice and political theater
• Memory and media representations of the Holocaust

Current Research

• Research network '(De-)Europeanization in History: Concepts, Conflicts, Cohesion 1890-1989', co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Current Courses

• Maymester 2009: EUS 260 Berlin - Historic Metropolis and Gateway to a New Europe
• HIST 228 European History 1900-1945
• HIST 229 European History post 1945
• HIST 230 German History 1900-2000
• EUS 201 European Society and Culture in the Twentieth Century
• EUS 215w Europe on Trial

Previous Positions

• Assistant (Scientific Strategy) to the President, Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School 'Staging the Body', Freie Universitaet Berlin

Selected Publications

• ‘Nothing more cosmopolitan than the camps? Holocaust Remembrance and (De-) Europeanization’ (forthcoming), in Patel, K./ Conway, M. (eds.), (De-) Europeanization in Twentieth Century History, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009
• ‘“Turning the courtroom into a revolutionary stage” – Performing ideology in Weimar political trials’ in Wamhof, G. (ed.), Wie der Vergangenheit der Prozess gemacht wurde. Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess in historischer Perspektive, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2009, pp.41-52
• Krisis. Krisenszenarien, Diagnosen und Diskursstrategien, Paderborn : Fink 2007 (editor, with Manfred Pfister)
• Performanz des Rechts: Inszenierung und Diskurs (Paragrana 14:1, 2006, co-editor, with Paula Diehl, Thomas Scheffer and Christoph Wulf)