Higher Education

2008
Ph.D., Modern European History, New York University, New York, USA. Dissertation title: “Men, Motorcycles and Modernity: Motorization during the Weimar Republic”

2001
MA, Modern European History and Museum Studies, New York University, New York, USA 

1997
BA, History and German Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA 

Professional Activities

Since 2024
Research Associate, Exhibition Project: “Energy Systems – Steam”, Deutsches Museum, Munich

2023
Research Associate, Exhibition Project: “Energy Systems – Electricity”, Deutsches Museum, Munich

2021 – 2023
Academic Trainee, Exhibition Project: “Public Transportation” Transportation Center, Deutsches Museum, Munich

2014 – 2021
Lecturer, New York University, Berlin

2017 – 2019
Corporate Development - Historical Archive, Exhibition Project: “175 Years of Gas Distribution in Hamburg”, Gasnetz Hamburg, Hamburg

2014 – 2015
Freelance Researcher, Volkswagen Auto-University, Institut für Arbeit und Personalmanagement (IFAP), Wolfsburg

2012 – 2013
Academic Assistant, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin

2010 – 2011
Guest Professor, „Gender and Stadt”, TU Berlin, Berlin

2008 – 2010
Post Doc, Transatlantisches Graduiertenprogramm Berlin – New York, „Geschichte und Kultur der Metropole im 20. Jahrhundert”, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin, Berlin

2001 – 2008
Program Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, New York University, New York, USA

1998 – 2023
Freelance Copyeditor and Translator (German / English)

1997 – 1998
Academic Assistant, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich

• Monograph (Peer Review)
  The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling during the Weimar Republic, Berghahn Books (New York:
  2016). Review in American Historical Review, Technology and Culture, Journal of Transport
  History, German History
• Co-editor
  Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko und Georg Wagner-Kyora, „Thick Space”: Approaches to
  Metropolitanism, Transcript Verlag, (Bielefeld: 2012).
• Journal Article (Peer-Review)
  „’The World is My Domain’: Technology, Gender and Orientalism in German Interwar Motorized Adventure Literature,” in Transfers, Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, Volume 1, Issue 3, Winter 2011, 44-63.
• Edited Volume (Peer Review)
  Sasha Disko, Bruce Kogut, Hanyu Li and Jennifer Zhang, "Efficient Work: Exploring Algorithmic Approaches to Categorization," in L. Herzog and B. Zimmermann, Shifting Categories of Work, Routledge (London: 2023).
• Online-Artikel (Peer-Review)
  „The End of the Pandemic of Productivism?" Wiko Briefs - Working Futures in Corona Times (2020)
  „Gasversorgung für die moderne Stadt", Geschichtsbuch Hamburg, (2019)
  „Wohnen als Grundrecht? Zur Wohnungsbaupolitik in historischer Perspektive“, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, (2018)
• Reviews
  „Richard W. Bulliet, The Wheel. Inventions and Reinventions," mit Nora Wunderer, in
  Technikgeschichte, 85 (2018), 3: 225-226.
• „Colin Divall, ed. Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities.” in Journal of Transport History, 27/1 (June 2016).
• „Peter Merriman, Mobility, Space and Culture,” in Journal of Transport History, 34/2 (December 2013).
• „Frank Steinbeck, Das Motorrad: Ein deutscher Sonderweg in der automobilen Gesellschaft,” in Journal of Transport History, 34/1 (June 2013).

• Redesign of the “Energy – Steam” exhibition
• Redesign of the “Energy – Electricity” exhibition
• Redesign of the “Public Transportation” exhibition (Transportation Department)
• Research Network: Working Futures, The Future of Work, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• Special Exhibition Project: “175 Years of Gas Distribution in Hamburg,” 2019

• Special Exhibition Project: “Schwabing: Art and Life around 1900,” 1999