Research Interests
I received my undergraduate degrees from the Freie Universität Berlin and my MA, MPhil, and PhD in History from Yale University. I am Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. My first monograph, German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism, and the United States, 1776–1945, analyzes the intersections of U.S. and German imperialism. I have published, among other venues, in the Journal of Modern History, Central European History, and the Journal of Genocide Research. My research focuses on the domestic ramifications of empire and colonial expansion for Germany and the United States; on political scandals in the German Empire; on National-Socialist expansionism and genocide; and on German labor and social history. I am currently finishing my second book, which takes a broad look at opposition groups to the German Empire’s status quo before 1918, and on street violence and politics in German cities before and after the end of World War I. My research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; I have been a Research Associate at the Freie Universität Berlin; and I have been awarded The Pennsylvania State University’s Prestigious Research Award.