Academic Career
– 2025: Ludwig and Margarethe Quidde Fellow at the German Historical Institute Rome
– 2022-2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Leibniz University Hannover
– 2021: Fellow at the German Study Center in Venice
– 2019-2021: Bielefeld University, Research Associate
– 2018: Bielefeld University, Coordinator of a DAAD-sponsored Thematic Network at the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology
Research Interests
– Modern German, Italian, US-American History
– History of Occupations
– History of Science
– Transnational Fascism
Publications
Books
– Unter alliierter Besatzung. Das lange Ende des Krieges in Süditalien, 1943-1947, Berlin/Boston 2024. (based on PhD-Dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2021)
– Deutsche Wissenschaftspolitik im Ausland und gelebtes Patriarchat – Gründung und Aufbau des Deutschen Studienzentrums in Venedig, 1965-1985, Regensburg 2023.
Articles
– Democratization, Local Government and Political Parties during the Allied Occupation of Southern Italy after 1943, in: Journal of Contemporary History, in: Journal of Contemporary History 59 (2024), No. 3, pp. 450-470.
– Setting the Stage for an Immediate Historicization? Early Sense-Making of the Allied Occupation of Italy between Fictionalized Accounts, War Novels, and Propaganda (1943–1947), in: Matthias Buschmeier/Jeanne E. Glesener (eds.), European Literatures of Military Occupation. Shared Experience, Shifting Boundaries, and Aesthetic Affections, Leuven 2024, pp. 215-238.
– Die Alliierten und das postfaschistische Italien: Handlungsspielräume auf dem Weg zur Republik, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 70 (2022), No. 10, pp. 852-870.
– Gaining a Foothold in the Weimar Republic: Giuseppe Renzetti’s Activities in the years 1925–1927, in: Storicamente 13 (2017), Nr. 9, S. 1-38, DOI: 10.12977/stor664.