EDUCATION

1999-2002
FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, Ph.D. in History (2003)

1998-99
YALE UNIVERSITY
Visiting Research Fellow, Fox International Fellowship

1994-95
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, M.A. (1995)
Major Field: American History

1991-98
FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, M.A. (1998)
Major Fields: Modern European History and American History


ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

January 2006–Present
Assistant Professor, Emory University, Department of History, Atlanta, GA

Fall 2002–Fall 2005
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.


RESEARCH RELATED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2007: Faculty International Travel Grant, Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS), Emory University
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam, Summer Research Fellowship

2005: Honorable citation at H-Soz-u-Kult book award “History Books 2004”

2004: Hedwig Hintze Prize of the German Historical Association, awarded every two years for the best dissertation in history (all fields)

2004: Friedrich Meinecke Prize for best dissertation in the History Department of the Free University of Berlin

2000-02: German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung) Dissertation Grant

2000: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Dissertation Research Grant

2000: German Historical Institute, London, Dissertation Research Grant

1998-99: Fox International Fellowship, Yale University

1994-95: Fulbright Fellowship

1993-1998: Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship