Current position(s)

Doktorandin (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

Current project(s)

Contested Histories: German American Politics of Memory and the Holocaust (Dissertationsprojekt)
Entangled Memories: Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age (Konferenz, Universität Hamburg, 9.-11. Oktober 2014)

Former position(s)

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, Resident Fellow (fall/winter 2013/14)
Columbia University, Visiting Scholar (spring/summer 2013)
Harvard University, Visiting Fellow (fall/winter 2012)
University of Oxford, DAAD visiting student / Europäisches Exzellenprogramm (2007/08)

Monographs (and dissertation)

"Herman the German": Das Hermann Monument in der deutsch-amerikanischen Erinnerungskultur (Münster: LIT, 2013)

Articles

"Still a Berliner? Fifty Years After John F. Kennedy's Assassination"; AICGS Commentaries: December 16, 2013; http://www.aicgs.org/issue/still-a-berliner-fifty-years-after-jf-kennedys-assassination/

Edited volumes

Memory studies; transnational history; American literature and culture (19th - 21st century)