Kurzvita
Academic Career
- 2025- Professor (W3), Modern and Contemporary History (Dictatorial Studies), Humboldt-University Berlin
- 2021-2025 Professor (W3), Modern and Contemporary History, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
- 2020-2021 Senior Researcher (tenured), Contemporary History, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, FU Berlin
- 2020 Interim Professor, Modern History, University of Bremen
- 2019 Habilitation in Modern and Contemporary History, Thesis on ‘Political Technologies of the Reich Ministry of Finance after 1919’, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2019-2020 Senior Researcher, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Germany
- 2013-2019 Assistant Professor, Contemporary History, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Independent Commission on the History of the Ministry of Finance, Federal Ministry of Finance and Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2009-2010 Parental Leave
- 2008 PhD in History, Thesis on ‘on ‘Mass Culture: Perceptions of Social Modernity in France 1880-1980’, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i.Br.
- 2007-2009 Postdoctoral Researcher, Contemporary History, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2003-2007 PhD student, Modern and Contemporary History, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i.Br.
- 2000-2002 Head of Project ‘Wired Memory’, Braunschweig Municipality
- 1993-1999 MA in History, German Literature and Psychology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br.
Research Grants
- 2026- PI (former Core team, now external member and head of working group “Disruptive Imagining”), Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
- 2024-2028 PI (head of historical projects) in the Research Group ‘Democratic Fiscal Policy in Transformational Times“ in cooperation with the Institute for World Economy Kiel, funded by the VW Foundation
- 2024-2028 PI at the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 294 ‘Structural Change of Property’, funded by the DFG (Head of Project B09: ‘Persona Ficta? Social Characters, Property Subjects and Investment Practices in the History of Financial Markets, 1950–1990‘)
- 2022-2027 PI in the Research Group ‘History of the German Ministries of Finance after 1945’, funded by the German Ministry of Finance
- 2017-2024 Head of the DFG-Scientific Network ‘Doing Debt. Praxeology of Sovereign Debt in the Long Twentieth Century’, together with Prof. Dr. Laura Rischbieter
- 2016-2017 Junior Fellow, Historisches Kolleg, Munich
- 2004 Doctoral Fellow, German Historical Institute, Paris
- 1996-1997 Graduate Fellow, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Editorial Committees & Advisory Boards
- Expert Committee on the Federal Government’s Memorial Culture Concept, German Bundestag (2025)
- Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Advisory Board, since 2024)
- Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (Scientific Board, since 2023)
- Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (Chief-Editor, since 2023)
- Network “Colonial Legacy in Thuringia” (Scientific Board, since 2022)
- Ettersberg Foundation, Weimar (Scientific Board, since 2022)
- Allied Museum Berlin (Scientific Board, since 2022)
- Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus (Editorial Board, since 2021)
- Evaluation Committee, German Historical Institute Paris (2022)
- Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (Scientific Board, 2021-2024)
- Expert Committee on the Hohenzollern’s claim against the German Federal State, German Bundestag (2020)
- Studies in Contemporary History / Zeithistorische Forschungen (Editorial Board, 2017-2022)
- Research Network ‘A World of Debts. The Global Politics of Public Debts from the Late 18th Century’, Sciences Po/CNRS-EHESS Paris, Programme Émergences (2015-2020)
Academic Distinctions
- 2025-2026 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor, London School of Economics (declined for personal reasons)
- 2024-2025 Fellow of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
- 2022 Economic History Prize
- 2021 First Prize for Papers in the Social Sciences, awarded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation