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Curriculum Vitae




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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Current:
Associate Professor of Twentieth Century History, Nottingham Trent University, September 2019-

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Jenny with Jeff Olick and Aline Sierp (Co-Presidents of the Memory Studies Association, at our 2017 Conference in Copenhagen)
Previous:
​DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & Canadian Center for German and European Studies, York University in Toronto, January 2016-August 2019

Coordinator, Graduate Diploma in German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, September 2016-August 2019

Parental leave, January-December 2015


Postdoctoral Researcher, EBS University Wiesbaden, January-December 2014
Conducting research as part of the Independent Academic Commission at the Federal Ministry of Justice for the Critical Study of the National Socialist Past.


Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Berlin October 2012 – December 2013.
Project: Constructing Memory in the European Union: Actors and Networks

Professorial Lecturer, American University, Washington D.C., August 2011 – May 2012
Taught courses on research methodology, world politics, and professional development and advised student research projects.

 
EDUCATION 

Ph.D.                            Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park. December 2010.
                                      Dissertation: "The Geschichtsbewegung and Civil Society Activism in German Memory Politics"

Master of Arts            University of Maryland, College Park in Government & Politics, May 2005.

Master of Arts            Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in International Communications, awarded High Distinction,     

                                      April 2002.
                                      Master’s Thesis: "Foreign and security policy in the European Union and the European public sphere"

Bachelor of Arts        University of Sussex, Brighton, UK in International Relations, awarded Honours First Class, July 2000.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monograph
‘Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany’ (Cambridge University Press, September 2017, paperback December 2018).
Translation: 'Zivilgesellschaft und Erinnerung in Deutschland nach 1945' (LIT Verlag, Berlin, forthcoming).



Editorship
‘Contesting Memory and Citizenship in Canada,’ Special Issue of Citizenship Studies, forthcoming in 2018, edited with Michael Nijhawan and Daphne Winland.
‘Locating Transnational Memory: how “unbound” remembrance is embedded in public spaces' editor of a Special Issue of the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (accepted for publication in 2018/19 and in preparation).
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics, edited with Aline Sierp (book proposal under review).
Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies on 'Transnational Memory Politics in Europe' (with Aline Sierp, September 2015)


Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

‘Moments of madness and protest cycles in German memory activism’ (completed and accepted for publication in Social Movements and Memory, Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmers, and Christian Wicke (eds.) to be published in 2019 with Routledge Press in the “Remembering the Modern World” series).

‘Agency in Transnational Memory - A Framework for Analysis’ (completed introductory chapter for edited volume Agency in Transnational Memory Politics).

Pluralism in Remembrance? Activism and Governance in German memory politics’ (under review, German Politics).
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‘Introduction: Contesting Memory and Citizenship in Canada’ Special Issue of Citizenship Studies 2018.

‘Vernetztes Gedenken? Netzwerkmethoden und Transnationale Erinnerungsforschung’ for the Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte, Thema: ‘Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerungskulturen global,’ Band 6 (2016).

'Memory Studies – the State of the Field’ in Memory Studies 10(4), October 2017, advance online publication available, (with Anamaria Dutceac Segesten).

'Linking the Local and the Transnational: Rethinking Memory Politics in Europe' in Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies edited with Aline Sierp (September 2015).

'The struggle for European memory - New contributions to an emerging field' Comparative European Politics 15 September 2014.    
‘Celebrating European Unity? The Forging of European Rituals of Remembrance through Anniversaries’ (with Hannes Hansen-Magnusson) Politique Européenne, special issue "D'une "mémoire européenne" à l'européanisation de la "mémoire"", No.37, 2012.

‘Transforming Berlin’s Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics Today’ in Remembering the German Democratic Republic: Divided Memory in a United Germany, edited by David Clarke and Ute Wölfel, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2011.

‘Vom alternativen Laden zum Dienstleistungsbetrieb: the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt – A Case Study in Activist Memory Politics’ German Studies Review, Vol.32 No.3, October 2009.

‘Using the Past in the Nazi-Successor States from 1945 to the Present’ in the Annals of the Academy of the Social and Political Sciences, Vol.617, May 2008 (with David Art).



Other articles
'The Purposes of the Memory Studies Association: An Invitation' (with Jeffrey Olick and Aline Sierp) in Memory Studies 10(4), October 2017

‘The Contemporary Presence of the Past: Memory Studies in the Council for European Studies and Beyond’ in EuropeNow (Special Issue: Memory and the Politics of the Past: New Research and Innovation), Issue 6, April 2017.


‘When the Field is Home: Conducting Research in One’s Country of Origin’ in the Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section in Comparative Politics, Vol.19 No.2, Summer 2008.

‘Developing Global Citizenship: Introducing a Teaching Toolkit’ The Political Science Educator, Vol.11 No.2, December 2006 (with Henrike Lehnguth).

‘Review Essay: Berlin’s Changing Memory Landscape – New Scholarship in German and English’ in German Politics & Society, Vol.24 No.2, Summer 2006.

‘Conflicted Memories: Germans Struggle to Adequately Commemorate the East German Dictatorship’ AICGS Advisor (newsletter of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies), August 2006.    


RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Founding Co-President (with Jeffrey Olick and Aline Sierp)
Memory Studies Association (2017-)


Invited Commission Member
Kommission “Erinnerungskulturen der sozialen Demokratie,” Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (2018-2020).

Founding Co-Chair (with Aline Sierp): 
Council for European Studies Research Network on Transnational Memory & Identity (2015-2019)

Management Committee Substitute Member for Germany:
COST Network "In search of transcultural memory in Europe" (ended in 2016)

Reviewer for (among others):
Berghahn Publishers
 History & Memory
 Memory Studies
German Politics & Society

Program Committee Member: 
Berlin Program for Advanced German & European Studies Summer Workshops (2014 and 2015)


CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Memory Studies Association
American Political Science Association                       
Council for European Studies
German Studies Association
Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft


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