Zur Person

EDUCATION

  • Since 04/14 Assistant Professor, British and North American History, Kassel University
  • 06/13-03/14 Assistant Professor at the Amerika-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  • 03-06/13 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahlem Research School, Free University Berlin
  • 05-08/12 Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
  • 02/12  Doctoral Degree (“summa cum laude”) from the Free University Berlin
  • 10/07-02/12 Doctoral Candidate at the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F.
  • Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin; Working title of the dissertation: “From Cocoa Slavery to Chocolate City: Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in the Constructions of Blackness”
    See a short film by the German Research Foundation here: http://www.excellence-initiative.com/berlin-north-american-studies
  • 02/06-03/07 Lecturer at the Department of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne
  • 02/06  M.A. in American Studies, Anglo-American History and Sociology at the  University of Cologne; Master Thesis on the “The Political and Cultural Aspects of African American Hair(styles)”
  • 06/98  Abitur at the Gymnasium Laurentianum in Warendorf

FELLOWSHIPS

  • 09-­10/14 Research Fellowship from the Thyssen Foundation
  • 03-06/13 Postdoctoral HONORS Fellowship by the Dahlem Research School, Free University Berlin
  • 05-08/12 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
  • 08/11 Travel Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to attend and give a paper at the “First Annual Convention of the Black German Cultural Society” in Washington, DC
  • 06/10 Member of the Young Scholars Network „Black Diaspora and Germany“ funded by the German Research Foundation
  • 10/07-03/12 Doctoral Fellowship from the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin
  • 04-08/07 Doctoral Fellowship from the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
  • 09/04-01/05 ERASMUS-Scholarship at the Université de La Réunion, St. Denis, Ile de La  Réunion, France
  • 08/02-06/03 Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service for one academic year at Duke University, North Carolina, USA

ORGANIZED CONFERENCES

  • „Changing Concepts in the Constructions of Race: Critical Whiteness Studies and Race in the Circum-Atlantic World“, 3. Workshop Young Scholars Network „Black Diaspora and Germany“, John F. Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin, January 2012.
  • „Divided We Stand; United We Fall”, International Conference at the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy- Institute, Free University Berlin, June 2008.

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Young Scholars Network „Black Diaspora and Germany” (http://www.blackdiasporaandgermany.com/)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
  • German Studies Association (GSA)
  • Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
  • Organization of American Historians (OAH)
  • (sk)interlocutors: An International Skin Research Group (http://www.skinterlocutors.com/)