ACADEMIC CAREER AND EDUCATION
10/2024-3/2025 Interim Professor of North American History, University of Erfurt
09/2019-present Senior Research Fellow, University of Leipzig, LeipzigLab “Global Health”
09/2022-12/2022 Visiting Professor for Gender and Body History, Department of History, FernUniversität in Hagen
08/2020-05/2021 Parental Leave
10/2015-08/2019 Research Fellow, Chair of North American History, Erfurt University, research project “Nutrition, Health, and Modern Society: Germany and the US” (Volkswagen Foundation)
04/2017-10/2017 Parental Leave
10/2012-09/2015 Research Fellow, Chair of North American History, Erfurt University, research project “The Eating Self: A History of the Political in the USA from the 19th to the 21st Century” (Thyssen Foundation)
11/2012 Ph.D. in History, Erfurt University. Dissertation title: “Jugenddelinquenz. Die Produktivität eines Problems in den USA der späten 1940er bis 1960er Jahre” (summa cum laude)
04-08/2011 Research Assistant, Chair of North American History, Erfurt University, project “Traces of Mind Control in Cold War Culture” (funded by DFG Mercator)
Winter terms 2007/08
and 2009/10 Lecturer, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences, Department of Gender und Queer Studies
3/2007 M.A. in History, Political Science, Gender and Queer Studies, University of Hamburg (with honours)
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
03/2022-02/2025 Project grant, DFG, "Pandemic Space: Understanding Quarantine and Responsibilization in Times of Corona”
11/2020 Publication grant, Leipzig University OA fund, for the anthology Fat Studies. Ein Glossar
04/2020 Travel Grant, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service, unused due to the Covid-19-pandemic)
04/2020 Travel Grant, Organization of American Historians (OAH, unused due to the Covid-19-pandemic)
09/2019 Workshop Grant, Forum for the Study of the Global Condition, for the workshop “Making Race and Health in Migration and Development,” held in June 2021
09/2012 Short-term Doctoral Scholarship of the University of Erfurt
04-05/2009 Doctoral Fellowship of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
04/2008-03/2011 Doctoral Scholarship of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation
04/2004-03/2007 Student Scholarship of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS, AND LECTURE SERIES
07/2023 Workshop “Global Health Histories III: (More than) Human Agency in the Anthropocene,” Leipzig University
05/2023 Conference “Classed Bodies: On the Body History of Social Inequality, 1770s to 1870s,” Campus Berlin of the FernUniversität Hagen (with Laura-Elena Keck and Lisa Weber)
04/2023 International Panel "Limits to Growth? Resource Crises and Shifting Ideas of Global and Planetary Boundaries," Annual Meeting of the Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig (with Antje Dietze)
01/2023 Workshop “Global Health Histories II: Quantifying Health and Disease in the late 20th Century,” Leipzig University
06/2022 Workshop “Global Health Histories I: Issues of Food and Nutrition,” Leipzig University
04/2022 International, interdisciplinary Panel "Health in the Global Condition: Arenas of the Planetary," Annual Meeting of the Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig (with Caroline Meier zu Biesen)
10/2021 Panel "Und das soll gesund sein? Deutungskämpfe um Gesundheit 1850-2000," (This can’t be healthy. Conflicts About Health, 1850-2000), 53rd Biannual Meeting of German Historians (53. Deutscher Historikertag), LMU Munich (online, with Peter-Paul Bänziger)
06/2021 International Workshop “Making Race and Health in Migration and Development,” with Rebecca Brückmann, online, Leipzig University
10/2018 International Workshop “Consumers, Health, and the Food Industry,” Erfurt University
01/2016 Workshop “Globalgeschichte der Ernährung” (Global Histories of Food and Diet), Erfurt University
09/2015 Interdisciplinary Conference “Das arme Subjekt. Subjektivierungen und sozialer Raum,” (Poor Subjects—Subjects, Selves, and Social Stratification), with Wiebke Wiede, Trier University
02/2015 International Conference “Histories of American Foodways,” Annual Meeting of Historians in the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), with Jürgen Martschukat, Erfurt
Summer term 2014 International Lecture Series “Global Foodways,” Erfurt University, with Iris Schröder
01/2014 International Workshop “Food and Consumption,” Erfurt University
09/2013 International Conference “Obesity, Health and the Liberal Self: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Late Nineteenth and the Late Twentieth Centuries,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, with Jürgen Martschukat, Uwe Spiekermann and Susan Strasser
06/2013 International, interdisciplinary Workshop “Dis/Ability Studies,” Erfurt University
05/2013 International, interdisciplinary Workshop “Food Studies,” Erfurt University, with Nora Kreuzenbeck
2005-2011 Interdisciplinary Lecture Series “Jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen,” with the working group Queer Studies, Hamburg University
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION AND THE UNIVERSITY
04/2024-present Spokesperson of the LeipzigLab "Global Health," University of Leipzig
06/2023-present Member of the Advisory Board of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)
04/2023-present Elected member of the board of directors of the LeipzigLab, University of Leipzig
03/2023-present Member of the Sustainability Commission, University of Leipzig
04/2020-present Elected member of the board of directors of the Research Centre Global Dynamics, University of Leipzig
2017-present Member of the Editorial Board of Body Politics: Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte
2017-2019 Elected member of the Equal Opportunities Advisory Board, University of Erfurt
2013-2017 Elected member of the department council of the Department of History, University of Erfurt
2012-2017 Member of the Editorial Board of WerkstattGeschichte