Curriculum Vitae
Since June 2023
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen: Research associate on the research project: “History of the House of Burda in the 20th Century”
November 2019 – June 2023
University of Duisburg-Essen: Research Associate at the DFG Research Training Group 1919: “Precaution, Foresight, Prediction. Contingency Management through Future Action,” PhD project: “In Times of “Unthinkable” Future. Thermonuclear Contingency Management and Nuclear War Scenarios in the Cold War USA from 1957 to 1991.”
August 2019 – October 2019
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen: Research Associate at the DFG Collaborative Research Center 923: “Threatened Orders,” short-term project (“Americanist Extremism? Barry Goldwater and Donald Trump.”)
July 2019
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen: Master of Arts degree in History, specialization: modern and contemporary history
September 2015
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen: Bachelor of Arts degree in History (major) and International Literatures (minor)
Research interests
- Social and media history of Germany in the 20th century
- Historical Futures
- “Cold War Studies”/Global History of the Cold War
- Visual History
- US-American conservatism since 1945
Publications
- Latenz, in: Wolfgang Kruse/Uwe Vormbusch u.a. (Hg.): Glossar der Unsicherheit [Volume in preparation]
- Comeback der Bombe? Nukleare Drohungen im Kalten Krieg und in der Gegenwart, in: Geschichte der Gegenwart, 18.12.2022, URL: https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/comeback-der-bombe-nukleare-drohungen-im-kalten-krieg-und-in-der-gegenwart/
- WarGames und DEFCON, Kriegsspiel/Spielkrieg. Über Simulationen einer sehr speziellen historischen Zukunftspraktik: thermonuklearen Krieg führen, [Scientific blog article], 03.02.2020, URL: https://grk1919.hypotheses.org/800
- 70 Jahre.Das Institut Culturel Franco-Allemand, 1946-2016: Eine wechselhafte Geschichte, Tübingen 2016 [with Thomas Gähtgens, in-house publication of the ICFA]