Full CV available upon request.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Since 2024
University of Oxford, Wadham College (United Kingdom)
Pat Thompson DAAD Fellow and Tutor in Modern History,
Keeper of the Silver
2022–2023
University College London (IAS) and German Historical Institute London (United Kingdom)
Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
2020–2024
University of Bremen (Germany)
Lecturer in Modern History
2015–2019
European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
Researcher in History
2013–2015
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History
EDUCATION
2022
PhD, European University Institute, Florence
Dissertation: “The Shadow Line: Railway and Society in Colonial East Africa, c. 1890–1914”
2024
MA, University of Oxford (by resolution)
2016
MRes in History, European University Institute, Florence
2012
Staatsexamen (German State Examination, comparable to a master’s degree), University of Mainz
2009–2010
History and Chinese Language, Peking University (北京大学), China
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2025
German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. (USA)
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2019–2020
Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz (Germany)
Doctoral Fellowship
2019–2020
University of Vienna, Department of African Studies (Austria)
Ernst Mach Scholarship (declined)
2019
European University Institute Florence, Department of History (Austria)
Ph.D. Completion Grant
2018
Max Weber Foundation (Germany)
Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grant
2016
German Historical Institute London (United Kingdom)
Research Scholarship
2015–2019
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Doctoral Research Grant
2008–2012
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Scholarship for outstanding students
