Lecturer and Researcher in British History

Research Interests

• gender history, especially the history of masculinity
• transnational scientific and scholarly networks
  
• history of higher education and universities
• generational identities and juvenile delinquency
  

Postdoctoral Research/Habilitation Project
Men of Reason: Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831-1939

Teaching 

• Centre for British Studies: Women and Gender in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Britain, British Identities, Britain and Europe, Imperial and Commonwealth History

• Institute of Historical Studies: Introduction to Gender History: Theory, Sources, Methods

• Organisation of Placement Scheme for MBS Students

Academic Career

• July-September 2012: Visiting Researcher, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
  

• Since November 2008: Lecturer and Researcher in British History at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
• 2008-2009: Associate Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University
• 2005-2009: DPhil. in Modern History, Balliol College, University of Oxford (Thesis title: Young Oxford: Generational Conflict and University Reform in the Age of Revolution)
• 2002-2004: MPhil. in Greek and Roman History, Balliol College, Oxford.
• 1999-2002: BA (Hons) in Ancient and Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford.

Scholarships and Prizes

• Selected participant in the "ProFiL" programme of the TU Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin for the development of leadership and management skills in higher education and research (2012–2013)
• Successful application to the HU Equal Opportunities Fund (Gleichstellungsfond) to fund the Proseminar 'Introduction to Gender History: Theory, Sources, Methods' in WiSe 2011/12

• AMP Read Scholar, History Faculty, University of Oxford (2008-9)
• Jowett Senior Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford (2005-7)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Research Award (2002-4)
• Robert Herbert Memorial Prize for Imperial and Commonwealth History (2002)
• Undergraduate (Fletcher) Scholarship, Balliol College, Oxford (2000-2002)

Editorial Positions

• Co-editor of the Journal of the Oxford University History Society (2007-present)

Third Party Funding

• Conference: Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons (2011)         
  

€10.000 from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (own application)

• Conference: The Changing Role of the Humanities in the Academy and Society: Historical and Transnational Perspectives (2011)
  

€3.000 from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (joint application)

Organisation of Conferences and Seminars

• The Changing Role of the Humanities in the Academy and Society: Historical and Transnational Perspectives (2011) with Dr. Georgia Christinidis. For more information on our 'Why Humanities?' Project, please visit our blog
  

• Anglo-German Scholarly Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century (2011) with PD Dr. Ulrike Kirchberger.
  
• Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons (2011) with Lily Chang.
  

• Odd Alliances in History: JOUHS Annual Colloquium (2009) with Graciela Iglesias Rogers.
• Masculinity and the Other: An Interdisciplinary Conference (2007) with Dr. Jessica Meyer.
• Gender and History seminar, Oxford University (2005-8) with Dr. Will Van Reyk, Dr. Alana Harris, Eve Colpus and Frances Flanagan.
• Modern Receptions of Greek and Roman Cultures (2006) with Dr. Isobel Hurst and Dr. Amanda Wrigley.

Professional Memberships

• The Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, HU, Berlin 

• Social History Society (UK)
• European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
• Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY)
• British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)

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