Biography
Trained in German, Jewish, and modern European history, I study how liberal democracies have been grappling with ethnic, religious, and cultural heterogeneity throughout the twentieth century.
Education
M.A. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
B.A. University of Leipzig
Field
- European History
- Jewish History
MA Title
- Fighting for the American Jewish Dream: Morris R. Cohen and Liberal Jewish Postwar Planning during World War II
Working Dissertation Title
- Jews, the State, and the Fight against Antisemitism in Western Europe (1944-1994)
Selected Publications
- Review of Tiffany N. Florvil, “Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement,” in “Cold War History,” 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2190428.
- Review of Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam, eds., “Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History,” in “Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung,” vol. 32, no. 6 (2023), pp. 775-777, https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/3325.
- “A Letter of Refusal: Morris R. Cohen and Oscar I. Janowsky on the Problems of Jewish Peace Studies during World War II” in Mimeo: Blog of the Dubnow Institute, 2022, https://mimeo.dubnow.de/a-letter-of-refusal/.
- “Ungleiche Weggefährten: Hannah Arendt, Melvin Lasky und der Antitotalitarismus im kulturellen Kalten Krieg,” Dubnow Institute Yearbook 17 (2018) [2020], pp. 117-144, https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666370809.117.
- “Illiberale Demokratie avant la lettre: Zu Carl Schmitts demokratietheoretischen Überlegungen in der Weimar Republik,” in Konflikt und Konsens: Demokratische Transformation in der Weimarer und Bonner Republik, ed. Sebastian Elsbach and Ronny Noak (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019), pp. 279-294.
- “Carl Schmitt,” in Handbuch der völkischen Wissenschaften: Akteure, Netzwerke, Forschungsprogramme, ed. Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar and Alexander Pinwinkler (Berlin/Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017), pp. 732-736 (together with Raphael Gross).
Selected Awards
- Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Fellowship
- Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Visiting Research Fellowship
- FU Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Dissertation Fellowship
- UW-Madison, Early Excellence in Teaching Award (Campus-Wide)
- American Academy for Jewish Research, Travel Grant
- Center for Jewish History-Fordham University, Research Fellowship
- Central European History Society, Research Grant
- Leo Baeck Institute, Fritz Halbers Fellowship Award
- HEFNU, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization Fellowship
- Fulbright, Study Fellowship
Professional Affiliations
- American Historical Association
- Association for Jewish Studies
- Central European History Society
- German Studies Association
Courses Taught as TA
- History 120: Europe and the Modern World, 1815 to the Present
- History 350: The First World War and the Shaping of Twentieth Century Europe
- History 357: The Second World War
Courses Taught as Instructor
- History 310: The Holocaust