1999-2002: Free University of Berlin, Ph.D. in History (2003), summa cum laude
1998-1999: Yale University, Visiting Research Fellow, Fox International Fellowship
1994-1995: University of Michigan, M.A. (1995), Major Field: American History
1991-1998: Free University of Berlin, M.A. (1998), Major Fields: Modern European History and American History

Academic Appointments:

Jan. 2006-Present: Assistant Professor of Modern German History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Fall 2002-Fall 2005: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Awards and Fellowships:

2005: Honorable citation at H-Soz-u-Kult book award "History Books 2004" (category Award of the H-Soz-u-Kult Audience)
2005: Tenth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 19 - July 1, 2005
2004: Hedwig Hintze Prize of the German Historical Association, awarded every two years for the best dissertation in history
2004: Friedrich Meinecke Prize for best dissertation in the History Department of the Free University of Berlin
2000-2002: German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung) Dissertation Grant
2000: German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Dissertation Research Grant
2000: German Historical Institute, London, Dissertation Research Grant
1998-1999: Fox International Fellowship, Yale University
1994-1995: Fulbright Fellowship
1993-1998: Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship

Professional Associations:

American Historical Association
German Studies Association (since 2004: member of GSA Archives Committee)
Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
Southern Historical Association European Section
Conference Group on Central European History (CGCEH)

Publications and Work in Progress

Books:

Battle for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of Capture German Archives after World War II, Cambridge University Press (in preparation).
Kampf um die Akten. Die Westalliierten und die Rückgabe von deutschem Archivgut nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004).
Feindbilder im Wandel. Ein Vergleich des Deutschland- und des Japanbildes in den USA 1945 und 1946 (Münster: Lit, 1999).

Edited Collections:

Der Holocaust und die westdeutschen Historiker. Eine Debatte, eds., Astrid M. Eckert and Vera Ziegeldorf (Berlin: Clio-online, 2004).

Articles and Chapters:

The Transnational Beginnings of West German Zeitgeschichte in the 1950s, Central European History 40:2 (forthcoming June 2007).
Bundesdeutsche Souveränität und die Rückgabe der diplomatischen Akten, APuZ Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 17/2005 (25 April 2005): 24-30.
"'...[a]nd grant German and foreign scholars access at all times': Archival Access in West Germany during the Cold War," in Michael Cook, Margaret Procter, and Caroline Williams, eds., Political Pressure and the Archival Record (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005), 75-91.
"Glasplatten im märkischen Sand: Ein Beitrag zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der Tageseinträge und Diktate von Joseph Goebbels," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 52 (2004): 479-526 (with Stefan Martens).
"American History in Germany: The View of the Practitioners," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 32 (Spring 2003): 51-84.
"Homo Politicus vs. Homo Academicus: Der amtliche Historiker im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Regierungsauftrag und historischer 'Objektivität'," Francia 29 (2002): 119-123.
"Hinter den Kulissen der Rückgabediplomatie. Interne Positionen der Briten und Amerikaner zur Rückgabe deutschen Schriftguts in den 1950er Jahren," Archive und Herrschaft. Referate des 72. Deutschen Archivtags. 18. 21. September 2001 in Cottbus. Veranstaltet vom Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare (Der Archivar. Beiband 7) (Siegburg: VdA, 2002), 107-117.
"Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act Aktenfreigaben in den National Archives, Washington, D.C.," in H-Soz-Kult (June 30, 2000), http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/BEITRAG/essays/ecas0600.htm
"'Mit Stolz blicken die Deutschen auf die Männer des 20. Juli': Ein unbekannter Artikel Emil Dovifats über das Attentat auf Hitler," in Bernd Sösemann, ed., Emil Dovifat. Studien zu Leben und Werk (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998), 161-186.

Conference and Research Reports:

"Access Presentation Memory: The American Presidential Libraries and the Memorial Foundations of German Politicians" Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 36 (Spring 2005), 105-113.
"Reconstituting Public Realms: Archivists, Librarians, and Journalists in Postwar Germany," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 35 (Fall 2004), 113-118.
"The Fight for the Files: Captured German Records After World War II," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 32 (Spring 2003), 144-148, and on H-German on-line discussion network (Nov. 26, 2002).

Essays in Newspapers:

"Eine alliierte Posse um Goebbels Nachlass: Die Notate des Reichspropagandaministers neue Funde," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, no. 163 (July 16, 2004), 44 (with Stefan Martens).
"Unbedenklich? 50 Jahre Bundesarchiv: Ein Amt mit Vergangenheit," Süddeutsche Zeitung, no. 125 (June 3, 2002), 14.
"Was Ernst Jünger dem nationalen Führer kredenzte: Die Library of Congress in Washington listet die Bücher aus dem Besitz Adolf Hitlers samt ergebenen Widmungen auf," Die Welt (May 29, 2001), 35.

Book Reviews:

Journal of American History, Historisch Politisches Buch, Historische Zeitschrift, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift

Selected Conference Papers and Invited Lectures:

"'Im Fegefeuer der Entbräunung': Deutsche Archivare auf dem Weg in den Nachkrieg," 75th Deutscher Archivtag: Deutsche Archive und Archivare im Nationalsozialismus und Nachkrieg, Stuttgart, Germany (Sept. 27-29, 2005).
"Managing Their Own Past: German Archivists between Nazism and Democracy," Second International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-Chora 2). Amsterdam (Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2005).
"Testing Freedom on the Frontier. Edward Coles and the Issue of Slavery in the Old Northwest, " 27th Annual Meeting of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies "American Historiography: Approaches, Issues, Controversies," Stiftung Leucorea, Lutherstadt Wittenberg (February 11-13, 2005).
"The Transnational Beginnings of German Zeitgeschichte after the Second World War," Mid-Atlantic German History Seminar, George Mason University, Washington, D. C. (Nov. 13, 2004).
"The History Makers: German Archivists in the Immediate Postwar Period," 118th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 8-11, 2004).
"'The first effective blow in a clear-cut propaganda war': The Publication of Nazi-Soviet Relations in 1948," Lecture Series, Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 10, 2003).
"'and grant German and foreign scholars access at all times': Archival Access in West Germany during the Cold War," Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS) Conference on Political Pressure and the Archival Record, Liverpool, UK (July 22-25, 2003).
"'We Should Profoundly Deplore the Loss to Historical Truth': British Perspectives on the Return of Captured German Records," 26th Annual Conference, German Studies Association, San Diego, CA (Oct. 3-6, 2002).
"Hinter den Kulissen der Rückgabediplomatie: Interne Positionen der Briten und Amerikaner zur Rückgabe deutschen Schriftguts in den 1950er Jahren," 72. Deutscher Archivtag, Cottbus, Germany (Sept. 18-21, 2001).
"'Eines der beschämendsten Kapitel des deutschen Volkes': Die westdeutsche Geschichtswissenschaft und die alliierte Aktenedition Documents on German Foreign Policy," Lecture at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam, Germany (April 12, 2001).

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