B.A. in Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, 2006
Specialties: Modern Europe, modern Germany, the Holocaust, international affairs, energy history
I teach survey courses on world history (World Civilizations through 1500, World Civilizations since 1500, The Twentieth Century World) in addition to seminars on topics ranging from the Holocaust and Nazi Germany to postwar Europe and the Cold War. Recent publications have appeared in the International History Review and the collected volume After the Imperialist Imagination: 25 Years of Research on Global Germany and its Legacies. I have also written numerous pedagogical pieces and commentaries on contemporary German energy policy for EuropeNow. My current research project – tentatively titled A Black Chimera: West German Petro-politics and the Developing World – traces the Federal Republic of Germany’s energy and development relations with petroleum producers Syria, Libya and Nigeria from the late 1950s through the first oil crisis of 1973/4. In addition to my research and teaching, I also serve on the editorial committee of EuropeNow and as co-chair of the Critical European Studies Research Network at the Council for European Studies.