VITA
Academic career
- 02/2020 Doctorate in Eastern European History at Justus Liebig University Gießen
- 5/2012–5/2014 Master's Degree in Historical and Cultural Sciences at Justus Liebig University Gießen
- 10/2008–4/2012 Bachelor's Degree in Historical and Cultural Sciences at Justus Liebig University Gießen
Stays abroad
- 9/2016 Research stay at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary
- 4/2016 Research stay at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in Boston, USA
- since 2014 multi-week research and archival stays in Berehove/Beregszász, Budapest, Bytča, Geneva, Prague, Opava and Warsaw
- 9/2013–5/2014 Semester abroad at the Pécsi Tudományegyetem/University of Pécs in Pécs, Hungary
- 10/2010–3/2011 Semester abroad at the Masarykova univerzita in Brno, Czech Republic
Work experience
- Since 2/2018 Researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute, TU Dresden
- 6/2014–12/2017 Researcher at the Herder Institute for historical research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association in Marburg; employee in the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB/TRR 138 "Dynamiken der
Sicherheit" im Teilprojekt A06 „Versicherheitlichung und Diskurse über
Rechte von Minderheiten und Mehrheiten in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20.
Jahrhundert“ (Special research area SFB/TRR 138 "Dynamics of Security" in the sub-project A06 "Securitization and discourses on minority rights and majorities in East Central Europe in the 19th and 29th century"
- 8/2011–9/2011 Internship at Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), editorial office of Frontal21 in Berlin
- 8/2009–9/2009 Internship at the Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (Federal institute for the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe) in Oldenburg
Linguistic proficiency
- English
- Czech
- Hungarian
- Slovakian
- Polish
Research and teaching focus
- Historical security research
- Minority research
- History of democracy
- Nationalism research
- History of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary in the 19th and 20th century
Scholarships and Awards
- 11/2019 Funding from the DAAD Conference Travel Programme for the 51st Annual ASEEES Convention in San Francisco
- 9/2013–5/2014 Yearly scholarship of the DAAD for a nine-month study stay in Pécs (Hungary)
Expert activities
- Since 1/2018 scientific review activity for "Verlag Herder-Institut"
Organizational activity
- 12/2018 Co-organiser of the international cooperative conference "Aufbruch zu Demokratie und Nationalstaatlichkeit in Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropa? Aktuelle Forschungen mit Fokus auf die lokale Ebene (1917-1923)" in Prague, (coperation partners: Junior-Prof. Dr. Tim Buchen, TU Dresden; Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague)
- 10/2018 Co-organiser of the international cooperative conference "The Local and the Regional Dimensions of 1918/19. A Comparison" in Prague, (Cooperation partners: Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague; Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
- 3/2018–6/2018 Coordination for the presentation of the main focus of funding
„1918 – Chiffre für Umbruch und Aufbruch“ during the "day of the open government district" in the Saxon Ministry for Science and Arts
HAIT-RESEARCH PROJECTS
TEACHING
Teaching events at the Hannah Arendt Institute
2018/19
winter semester
winter semester
„Ein auf dem großen Friedhof des Weltkrieges errichtetes Laboratorium“. Aktuelle Forschungen zum Zusammenbruch der alten und dem Entstehen der neuen Staatenordnung in der Mitte Europas (1917–1923)
exercise, TU Dresden/BZW/A154/U