Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Career

Academic Carrier

11/2016 Habilitation at the University of Trier
10/2004 Master of Arts (Library and Information Science), Humboldt UniversityBerlin
10/2001–07/2003 Postgraduate degree course in library science at the Humboldt University Berlin
07/2000 PhD at the University of Trier
01/1995–07/2000 Doctoral student at the University of Trier
02/1992 Licentiate at the University of Zurich
10/1983–02/1992 Studies in general history, economic history/social economics and political science at the University of Zurich

 

Positions an Research Fellowships

11/2018 DFG-Project (principal investigator) “The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)” at the Humboldt University Berlin
10/2017–
07/2018
Fellow at the International Research Centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History“, Humboldt University Berlin. Research topic: „The Borders of the Welfare State: Labour Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion“
10/2015 Visiting Lecturer at the Leuphana University Lüneburg
09/2014 Karl-Ferdinand-Werner Fellowship, German Historical Institute Paris. Research topic: “Guilt, Law and Justice. The Royal Prerogative of Mercy in Modern Europe”
07/2013–12/2013 Fellowship at the German Historical Institute London. Research topic: “Guilt, Law and Justice. The Royal Prerogative of Mercy in Modern Europe”
04/2011–09/2011 Fellowship at the Germen Historical Institute London. Research topic: “Vagrancy / Landstreicherei: the wandering poor in England and Germany (1870-1933)”
02/2002–12/2012 Postdoctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre 600 Strangers and Poor People: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day based at the University of Trier
02/2001–01/2002 Archivist in the Department Archives / Library / Documentation of the broadcaster “Deutsche Welle”, Cologne
01/1995–12/1997 PhD-scholarship in the research training group Western Europe in Comparative Historical Perspective at the University of Trier
09/1992–12/1994 Information Specialist at the “Presse- und Medienarchiv AG” and part-time museum guide at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich