Appointed Positions
- since 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow
Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Migration
Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley & German Historical Institute Washington, Pacific Regional Office
Professional Positions
- 2020-2021 Doctoral Research Assistant
Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig - 2015-2018 Doctoral Research Assistant
Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin - 2011-2015 Student Research Assistant
16 vol. document collection “The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945” at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich – Berlin, Berlin - 2010-2011 Freelance Educator
Foundation Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin - 2006-2007 Volunteer
Memorial Site of Stutthof, Pedagogical Department, Sztutowo, Poland
Fellowships and Grants (selection)
- 2022 Association for Jewish Studies, AJS Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars Grant
- 2021 Szloma-Albam-Foundation, Grant for an Open-Access publication for the book “Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland. Warschaus jiddische Presse im Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus (1930-1941), De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2022 ”
- 2018-2020 Conference for Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies
- 2019 Free University Berlin, Fund for Female Researchers, Graduate Travel Grant for a research trip to Israel
- 2018 Yad Vashem, Research Fellowship for PhD candidates, Israel
- 2018 German Historical Institute Warsaw, Research Fellowship, Poland
Prizes
- 2022 Irma Rosenberg Förderpeis für die Erforschung der Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus for PhD thesis on the Yiddish press of Warsaw and it’s struggle against Nazi Germany
- 2022 Special Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis by the Jury of the Scientific Prize from the Polish Ambassador to Germany
- 2014 Special Award for Outstanding Master Thesis by the Jury of the Scientific Prize from the Polish Ambassador to Germany
Education
- 2015-2021 PhD, Free University Berlin: Modern History
- 2011-2014 Master of Arts, Free University Berlin: Eastern European Studies
- 2007-2011 Bachelor of Arts, Free University Berlin: History and Jewish Studies
Service for the Community (selection)
- 2022 Unit Chair, UC Berkeley, The Union of Postdocs and Academic Researchers
- 2022 Co-Organizer (together with Robin Buller and Wolf Gruner), “Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks during and after the Holocaust“, Workshop of the USC Shoah Foundation, UC Berkeley & German Historical Institute Washington, April, 4-5 2022, Los Angeles
- 2020 Co-Organizer (together with Jan Gerber, Felix Pankonin and Jakob Stürmann), “Messages in a Bottle, The Migration of Texts”, Annual Conference of the Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, December, 3-4 2020, online
- 2007-2011 Organization and execution of numerous seminars at different museums and memorials such as Stutthof and Majdanek (both Poland) for the NGO Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste
- 2012-2014 Fundraising and Co-Creator of the brochure “From Kyiv with Love – Queer Lifeworlds in the Ukraine” & Organization of a panel discussion with activists from Kyiv on LGBT rights in the Ukraine
- 2006-2007 Support and care for Jewish and Catholic Holocaust survivors in Gdańsk, Poland, for the NGO Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste