CV
Since 04/2016 | Chair of Modern History, University of Cologne, Germany |
2012/2013 | Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair of German and European Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada |
2011/12 | Research grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
2011 | Chair offer “European Political History, 19th/20th century” at the KU Leuven, Belgium (rejected) |
2008-2016 | Professor at the University of Wuppertal, Germany |
2008 | “History Book of the Year”-Award in Modern History for “Der Mythos vom Befreiungskrieg” (The Myth of the War of Liberation) |
2007 | Visiting Scholar am Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University |
2003-2008 | University Professor of Modern History, University of Tübingen, Germany |
2003 | Habilitation: Venia Legendi in Modern History |
1999-2008 | Prinicipal Investigator at the Collaborative Research Centre “War and Society in Modern History” (SFB 437), Tübingen, Germany |
1996-2003 | Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany |
1992-1996 | PhD 1996 (summa cum laude), supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Langewiesche, University of Tübingen; research grant of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation |
1985-1992 | Study of History, Cultural Studies, Political Sciences, and Political Economy at the University of Tübingen, Germany freelance journalist for press and broadcast |