Derzeitige Position(en)

Senior Lecturer in the Cultural History of Central Europe

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Modern Vienna: A History, 1815–1995 (under advance contract with Bloomsbury Publishing, London).

The Descent of Freud: Appropriations, Implementations and Popularisations of Freudian Thought in the USA and in Europe, c. 1938-1995 (edited book project).

‘Völkerpsychologie in Nineteenth Century Germany (working title)’, in Nineteenth Century German Scholars in the Humanities, edited by Efraim Podoksik (Leiden: Brill, 2019).

‘America on the Danube: Austrian Perceptions of the United States, 1890–1930’, for a refereed journal.

‘Karl Lamprecht’s America’, for a refereed journal.

‘A Freudian Triptych: History in a New Key. Namier, Hughes, Schorske’, for a refereed journal.

Frühere Position(en)

2006–2014 Lecturer in the Cultural History of Central Europe, University College London
2001–2006 DAAD Lecturer in Modern German History, University College London
1999–2001 Research Fellow, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

Monographien (und Dissertation)

The Mind of the Nation: Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851–1955 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books), 2013, Paperback edition 2016.

Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten: ‘Amerikanisierung’ in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1900–1933 [Unlimited Opportunities: ‘Americanization’ in Germany and France, 1900–1933] (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2003).

Artikel

2017 ‘Die “britische Invasion”: Britische Pop- und Rockmusik in den USA’ [The ‘British Invasionʼ: British Pop and Rock Music in the USA], in Populärkultur–transnational: Sehen, Hören, Lesen, Erleben im Europa der langen 1960er Jahre, ed. by Dietmar Hüser. (Bielefeld: Transcript), 107–25.

2016 ‘“The Germans are Beating us at our own Game”: American Eugenics and the German Sterilization Law of 1933’, in History of the Human Sciences 29, 25–43.

2015 ‘Sex, Coffee and Madness: New Studies on the History of Vienna’, in Central Europe 13, 107–113.

2014 ‘Die halbierte Moderne: Amerikanismusdebatten und Amerikanisierungsängste im Augsburg der Weimarer Zeit’ [Truncated Modernity: Debates about Americanism and Fears of Americanization in Augsburg during the Weimar Republic], in Amerika und Augsburg: Aneignungen und globale Verflechtungen in einer Stadt, ed. by Philipp Gassert, Günther Kronenbitter, Stefan Paulus and Wolfgang E. J. Weber, (Augsburg: Wißner), 167–84.

2013 ‘The French Reception of Völkerpsychologie and the Origins of the Social Sciences’, in Modern Intellectual History 10, 293–316.

2013 ‘Perfidious Albion: Wilhelm Wundt, Völkerpsychologie and anti-English Propaganda in Germany during the First World War’, in German and British Nationalism and Anti-Semitism, 1871–1945, ed. by Felicity Rash, Geraldine Horan and Daniel Wildenmann, (Oxford: Peter Lang), 235–55.

2013 ‘Defining the Volk: Willy Hellpach’s Völkerpsychologie between National Socialism and Liberal Democracy’, in History of European Ideas 39, 693–708.

2011 ‘Theodor Fritsch (1852–1933): The “Godfather” of German Antisemitism’, in In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by Rebecca Haynes and Martyn Rady (London: I.B. Tauris), 73–88.

2011 ‘Anti-Americanism in Twentieth Century Europe’, in The Historical Journal 54, 1125–39.

2010 ‘Urban History and Modernity in Central Europe’, in The Historical Journal 53, 177–95.

2010 ‘The Mind of the Nation: The Debate about of Völkerpsychologie, 1851–1900’, in Central Europe 8, 1–19.

2009 ‘Anarchy and Noise: New Studies on the History of Fin-de-siècle Vienna’, in Central Europe 7, 161–8.

2007 ‘German Race Psychology and its Implementations in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius’, in Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940, ed. by Marius Turda and Paul Weindling (Budapest and New York: Central European UP), 23–40.

2004 ‘Auf den Spuren des Sonderwegs. Zur Westorientierung der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft in der Bundesrepublik’ [Tracing the Special Path: On the Westernization of Historiography in the Federal Republic of Germany], in Deutschland und die USA in der internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Manfred Berg and Philipp Gassert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner), 98–112.

2004 ‘Rassenhygiene, Sozialpolitik und Sexualität: Ehe- und Sexualberatung in Deutschland 1918–1945’ [Racial Hygiene, Social Policy and Sexuality: Marriage Counselling and Sex Clinics in Germany, 1918–1945], in Von Lust und Schmerz. Eine Historische Anthropologie der Sexualität, ed. by Claudia Bruns and Tilmann Walter (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau), 293–312.

2003 ‘Amerikanismus und Antiamerikanismus im Frankreich der Zwischenkriegszeit’ [Americanism and Anti-Americanism in Inter-war France], in Amerikanismus/Americanism/Weill: Die Suche nach kultureller Identität in der Moderne, ed. by Hermann Danuser and Hermann Gottschewski (Schliengen: Edition Argus), 67–90.

2000 ‘Kronzeugen des Antiamerikanismus in Deutschland und Frankreich. Adolf Halfeld und Georges Duhamel’ [Crown Witnesses of Anti-Americanism in Germany and France: Adolf Halfeld and Georges Duhamel], in Welche Modernität? Intellektuellendiskurse zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich im Spannungsfeld nationaler und europäischer Identitätsbilder, ed. by Wolfgang Eßbach (Berlin: Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz), 173–91.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Central Europe (Taylor and Francis), ed. with Peter Zusi, 2010-2016.