Education

PhD, MA, History: University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2004.
*Dissertation: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Towards an economic, consumer, design and cultural history.

BA with High Honors: Swarthmore College June 1997.


Employment

Western Michigan University, Department of History. Assistant Professor, August 2004-Present.

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam. Guest fellow (as part of Humboldt Fellowship). 2007-2009.


Awards and Fellowships

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Two Year Postdoctoral Fellowship to research second book in Berlin, 2007-2009.

Recipient, Fritz Stern Dissertation Award, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, for best dissertation in German history, awarded August, 2005.

Burnham-McMillan Research Award, Western Michigan University, June 2005, to support summer research in Germany and Poland.

University Fellowship. University of Wisconsin-Madison, academic year 2003-2004.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. September 2001-December 2002. Visiting fellow.

Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison..Summer, 2000. Research in Halle, Magdeburg and Berlin, Germany.

Wisconsin Academic Residential Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Graduate Fellowship, 1998-1999.