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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

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