Fields
Modern German History
Modern British and Irish History
History of Lower-Class Political Mobilization
History of Work and Labor History
Modern European Thought and Ideas
Teaching
HIST 1056: Nationalism
- Dr. phil., University of Cologne, 2010
- Staatsexamen (equivalent MA phil.), English and History, University of Cologne, 2000
Education & Training
- Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Members at the University of California San Diego (2023)
- Fellowship of the Historisches Kolleg, Munich (2013-2014)
- Humanities International Award from the German Booksellers Association (2011)
- Best Dissertation Prize of the German Association for British Studies (2008)
Monograph:
Crown, Church and Constitution: Popular Conservatism in England, 1815 – 1867 (Oxford, New York: Berghahn 2016).
Selected Articles:
„Arbeitslosigkeit, Doppelverdiener und der Schatten der NS-Arbeitsideologie: Bürgerbriefe an die Bundesregierung und die vergessene Krise der Arbeit“, in Partizipation per Post. Bürgerbriefe an Politiker in Diktatur und Demokratie (Zeithistorische Impulse 16), ed. Ernst Wolfgang Becker & Frank Bösch (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2024), 165-186. [Unemployment, Double Earners and the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Letters to the Federal Government and the Forgotten Crisis of Work in Post-War West Germany]
“Investigative TV Journalism, Infotainment and Reality TV: Team Wallraff, Undercover Boss and the 2014 Burger King Scandal in Germany (As Seen On TV!),” German Politics and Society 21:4 (2021), 25-50.
“Forgotten Gentleman Leaders: Local Elites, Conservative Constitutionalism and the Public Sphere in England, c. 1820-1860,” Journal of Modern European History 11:4 (2013), 474-494.
My current research focuses on post-war Germany and the history of work in 20th century Europe. I am working on a book on the West German work ethic after 1945 which analyzes the legacy of Weimar and Nazi work experiences after 1945, the migration of so-called “guest workers” from the 1960s onwards and the German experience of economic, technological and cultural change in the 1970s and 1980s.
