Dissertation

• since 2012

Ph.D. candidate at the Joint Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program „Human Rights Under Pressure“ | Freie Universität Berlin / Hebrew University Jerusalem (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper)

Education

• 2006-2010
  M.A. in East European Studies with a focus on History at the Institute for East Europe Studies at Freie Universität Berlin; Thesis title: „Quellen und Ziele von Putins ‚Reichsidee’ – Geschichtspolitik im Zeichen der ‚souveränen Demokratie’“
• 2002-2006
  B.A. in Histoire générale / Langue, littérature et civilisation russes / Littérature allemande at the University of Geneva (Switzerland)
  Thesis:  "Das Britischen Commonwealth im Ersten Weltkrieg"

Professional Experience

• 2008
  Internship with the interdisciplinary journal „Osteuropa“.
  freelance research on Soviet cultural history (Institute for East Europe Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
• 2007
  freelance research on the Russian Middleages at (division for the History of East Europe at the Institute for East Europe Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
• 2006 – 2010
  Student representative at the institute council of the Institute for East Europe Studies, Frein Universität Berlin
• 1999 – 2007
  freelance Journalist for a local Swiss newspaper, including an internship with the editorial board

Research Interests

• history of the First World War
• history of East Europe
• history of Gouvernmentality

Dissertaion Project

1914 – 1918: Enemy Aliens and Dissidents during the German Empire. A Study on Politics, Security and Liberty during the First World War.