PhD Candidate
Late Modern Europe
Dissertation
My dissertation shows how film became a forum through which to advocate and imagine humanistic social change during the first few years of the Weimar Republic.
Research Interests
- Imperial and Weimar Germany
- German film and literature
- World War I
- LGBTQ+ history
- Media archaeology
Selected Publications
Selected Awards and Fellowships
2021-2022, Erasmus+ Freie Universität Berlin
2021-2022, Global, International and Area Studies John L. Simpson ABD Fellowship, University of California - Berkeley
2020-2021, Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives)
2020, Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship, University of California - Berkeley
2019, Institute for European Studies Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowship, University of California - Berkeley
2018, Max Kade Travel Stipend Award
2016-2022, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of California - Berkeley
2005-2009, Merit Scholarship, University of Chicago
Selected Presentations
“Idealists and Exiles: Internationalism in Sexology and Film from Weimar to War,” Seminar: “Transnational Germans: Local Actors and Global Spaces, Global Actors and Local Spaces,” German Studies Association, Indianapolis, IN, September 2021.
“‘Eine Zensur findet nicht statt‘. Film und die Novemberrevolution,” Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung e.V. an der TU Dresden: HAIT-Doktorandenforum, Dresden, Germany (online conference), November 2020.
“Durch Film zur Gerechtigkeit. Fortschrittliche Filme und die Novemberrevolution,” Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: Europäische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts Kolloquium, Berlin, Germany (invited talk), November 2020.
“The Afterlives of Anders als die Andern: Media Archaeology and Queer Weimar,” University of British Columbia: The Pasts and Futures of Queer German Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada (online conference), April 2020.
“Experiments in German Censorship from Verdun to Weimar,” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: ProMoHist-Kolloquium, Munich, Germany (invited talk), December 2019.
“Movies in the Universal Language: A Babelsberg Star in Silent Hollywood”, German Historical Institute West: West Coast Germanists’ Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, April 2019.