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.
- Temporalities of the Event: New Vistas on a Historical Category
Workshop Project, Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie (with Anna Karla and Jörn Eiben) in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam.
- Rupture
Conference Project, First Anglo-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy.
Previous
- In/Action: Social and Political Practices of Non-Participation in Modern Europe
Workshop Project, leading up to an edited volume (2017–2019).
- Signs of Decadence: Semantical Studies on the Emergence of Cultural Criticism in the 18th and early 19th Centuries
PhD-Thesis in History, Bielefeld University (2006–2010), summa cum laude, supervisors: Prof. Dr. W. Steinmetz (Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. W. den Boer (Amsterdam), in German, awarded the Dissertatin Prize of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft.
- Considering the Horizon: Science and Art in Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation
MA-Thesis in Philosophy, Leiden University (2006), supervisor: Dr. Th. C. W. Oudemans, in Dutch.
- Human Truth: Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics as Humanism
MA-Thesis in History, Leiden University (2005), supervisor: Prof. Dr. P.H.H. Vries, in Dutch.
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