| Year | Curriculum Vitae |
|---|---|
since 2023 | Professor of Environmental and Technological History at the University of Passau |
| 2025 | Appointment Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Center for Peace and Conflict Research in Bavaria in February 2025. Link |
2018-2023 | Junior Professor of Non-European History of the 19th and 20th centuries at Kiel University |
2022 | Habilitation in Modern History at Kiel University with a thesis on colonial environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
2016-2018 | Assistan Professor at the Chair of Non-European History, University of Duisburg-Essen |
2016 | Postdoc-scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute, London |
2014-2016 | Assistant Professor (Postdoc) in the DFG-project ›Leopardenmänner. Ein translokales Gewaltphänomen in der kolonialen Phase Afrikas (Sierra Leone/Liberia 1880–1950)‹ at the University of Kassel |
2015 | Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Kassel with a dissertation on concepts of geography and nature in the Islamization ot the 18th and 19th centuries. |
2011-2013 | Assistant Professor in the project ›Soziales Handeln an der frontier. Macht, Krieg und Religion im vorkolonialen Westafrika‹ (University of Kassel, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation) |
2010-2011 | Assistant Professor (Coordinator) of the DFG Research Group ›Gewaltgemeinschaften‹ at Justus Liebig University Gießen |
2010 | Magistra Artium at Justus Liebig University Gießen |
Studies in Medieval and Modern History, Specialist Journalism, Arabic Studies and Philosophy (Justus Liebig University Gießen and Phillips University Marburg), as well as African Linguistics (Kiswahili, Fulfulde, Hausa) at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
