I was born and raised in Cold War West Germany where I grew into a “nasty girl” (cf. Michael Verhoeven’s 1990 film by the same title) when I started to dig into my hometown’s Nazi past. Hooked on history, I have been digging ever since, both in European and American archives and universities.
I view teaching, research, and intellectual inquiry as adventures affording us endless opportunities both to understand and challenge ourselves as well as our worlds. I strive for students to be critical and to gain a sense of ownership in their own intellectual discoveries and ever more global journeys.
I strive for students to be critical and to gain a sense of ownership in their own intellectual discoveries. And I marvel at their many accomplishments, among them our GLS students' creation of their own open-access online undergraduate research journal The Interdependent.