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Education and Career

2017: Lecturer at the Department of British and North American History, University of Kassel
2016-2017: Lecturer at the Department of North American History, University of Cologne
2015-2016: Lecturer at the History Department of the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin
2014-2015: Postdoctoral Fellow (“Follow-Up Fellowship”), Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University Berlin
2014: Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin
2010-2014: Doctoral Candidate at the Graduate School of North American Studies, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin
2010: Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary History, Sociology, and Political Science, Humboldt University Berlin and University of Leicester

Fellowships

2017: German Academic Exchange Service, travel funds for giving a paper at the Southern Historical Association’s annual meeting in Dallas
2017: German Historical Institute, 3-months research fellowship
2016: Fulbright Commission, American Studies Institute fellowship
2010-2014: Ph.D. Scholarship, German Research Council (4 years)
2010: Ph.D. Scholarship, Arts and Humanities Research Council (declined)
2009: Research Fellowship, German National Academic Foundation and German Academic Exchange Service (declined)
2004-2010: Magister Artium Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation

Invited Talks

2017: “The Civil Rights Movement and its Legacy: The Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Lecture.” American Space Leipzig (a cooperation between the University of Leipzig and the United States General Consulate Leipzig)
2017: “’Intelligent Opposition to Race Mixing’: Cornelia Dabney Tucker and female Massive Resistance in South Carolina.” International conference “Cultures of US-American Conservatism,” Universität Göttingen
2015: “Segregation’s Southern Belles.” International symposium “The Resilience of White Supremacy and Privilege,” Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
2016: “Fluid Frontiers? (Re-)Configurations of Gendered and Racial Identities in the Nineteenth Century South/West.” Lecture series “Borders in Motion/Fronteras en Movimiento,” Freie Universität Berlin

Conference Papers

2017: “‘The Cheerleaders’ and New Orleans’s Desegregation Crisis.” Louisiana Historical Association, Shreveport, LA, March 16-18.
2014: “Massive Resistance Revisited: New Interpretations of the Segregationist Counter-Movement.“ British Association of American Studies, Birmingham, United Kingdom, April 10-13.
2013: “Women activists in Massive Resistance.” The University of California
(UCLA), Center for the Study of Women, “Thinking Gender,” Los Angeles, CA, February 1.
2013: “Proto-feminist Groups in Massive Resistance?” American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 3-6.
2012: “’It is time for the Mothers to Take Over’: Women’s Roles in Massive Resistance.” Louisiana State University, History Graduate Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 23-24.
2012: “’For Our American Form of Government’: South Carolinian Women in Massive Resistance.” South Carolina Historical Association, Columbia, SC, March 10.
2011: “Pointing Fingers: German Reactions to the Central High School Desegregation Crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.” Black German Cultural Society, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., August 19-21.

Academic Event Organization

2011: Co-organization of the international conference “American Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modes of Power”. Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
2017: Organization of the “Black History Week,” a aseries of events for Black History Month, including a historiographical exhibition, a reading, an interdisciplinary round table and a film screening and debate. Department of North American History, Universität zu Köln.

Professional Associations