Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

American University, Washington, United States

• Leipzig
• East Central Europe

• Environmental History
• Cultural History
• Time of the German Reunification

• Three Cities after Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction across Cold War Borders (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).
• Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020).
• Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
• The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945‐1970 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
• “Architecture beyond Ideology: The Politics of Forgotten Landmarks in Communist East Germany,” Journal of Urban History 47, no. 2 (March 2021): 420‐449

25.05.2018 - 30.06.2018
Guest Researcher at the GWZO

Research tasks:

• Studies on postwar urban development in Leipzig and postmodern architecture in the GDR using the bowling meeting as an example
• Preparation of an essay on the publication in the GWZO series "Kompass Ostmitteleuropa"