Research interests

• Comparative Western European history (esp. France, Britain, Germany).
• 18th and 19th century intellectual history.
• History of 19th century political communication.
• Historical semantics and discourse analysis.
• History of time.
• Philosophy, theory and methodology of the humanities.

Projects

Current

• Qui tacet: The Uses of Silence in Political Communication in 19th Century Europe

Habilitation / Second Book Project, Freiburg University (submitted in April, accepted in October 2021, publication planned for 2023).

• Depoliticization before Neoliberalism: Contesting the Limits of the Political in Modern Europe

Workshop Project, co-organized with Adriejan van Veen (Nijmegen) and funded by the Thorbecke-Fund of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Previous

• Times of the Event: New Vistas on a Historical Category

Workshop Project, organized by the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie (with Anna Karla and Jörn Eiben) in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, leading up to the publication of a forum in History & Theory.

• In/Action: Social and Political Practices of Non-Participation in Modern Europe

Workshop Project, leading up to an edited volume, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2017–2019).

• Rupture

Conference Project, First Anglo-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, 2019, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy.

• Signs of Decadence: The Emergence of Cultural Criticism in 18th and Early 19th Century Europe

PhD-Thesis in History, Bielefeld University (2006–2010), summa cum laude, supervisors: Prof. Dr. W. Steinmetz (Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. W. den Boer (Amsterdam), awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft.

Conference, Workshop and Panel Organization

• “Depoliticization before Neoliberalism: Contesting the Limits of the Political in Modern Europe”, workshop funded by the Thorbecke Fund of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-organizer (with Adriejan van Veen), Nijmegen 2022.
• “Ethan Kleinberg/Siegfried Kracauer”, workshop in cooperation between the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie and the Bielefeld Center for Theories in Historical Research, organizer, Bielefeld 2021.
• 1st Anglo-German Frontiers of Humanities Conference “Rupture”, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy, co-chair of the Organising Committee (with Maya Mayblin) and co-organizer (with Daniel Lee) of the panel “Disconnection/Reconnection? Imaginaries, Negotiations and Conflicts”, Lübeck 2019.
• “Die Zeiten des Ereignisses: Neuvermessung einer historischen Kategorie”, workshop in cooperation between the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, co-organizer with Anna Karla and Jörn Eiben, Potsdam 2018.
• “Nicht/Handeln: Sozio-politische Praktiken der Partizipationsunterlassung in der europäischen Moderne”, workshop funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, organizer, Freiburg i. Br. 2017.
• “Enlightenment from Beginning to End”, panel at the International Congress for 18th-Century Studies, co-organizer with Franz Fillafer, Graz 2011.

Peer Reviews

• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
• História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography
• Hungarian Historical Review
• International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity
• Routledge

This page has the following sub pages.

• PhD Project
• Honors