I am a Professor of History and Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University’s School of Arts & Humanities, a project leader within NTU’s Global Heritage Theme, and the co-lead of AIMS@NTU (Advancing Interdisciplinary Memory Studies). I joined NTU in September 2019 as Associate Professor of Twentieth Century History, after three and a half years as DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor in Politics and German & European Studies at York University in Toronto.
My research interests include comparative politics and history; memory politics in Europe, in settler colonial societies, and transnationally; civic activism, social movements, and democratization; the memory of slow-moving and large-scale change (including biodiversity loss and family separation); and qualitative and network methodology. My monograph Civil Society
and Memory in Postwar Germany appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2017 and in German translation in 2020. I am currently working on the monograph Slow Memory: Remembering Gradual Change in an Accelerating World (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
I currently teach courses on memory studies, 20th century history, protest movements, revolutions and democracy, environmental change, the politics of memory, qualitative methods & research design, and German history, politics and culture. I have built several mentorship programs (including within the MSA) and am a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. I am NTU’s lead in the Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership.