Key activities
Research interets
- Rural History in Western Europe (19th/20th Century)
- History of Historiography (19th/20th century)
- History of Europe (20th century)
- History of the social sciences (20th century)
Werdegang
University Education
| 1974-1984 | Romance languages and literature, History and Sociology, WWU Münster and Paris |
Graduation / Academic Degrees
| 1994 | Habilitation in History (with a work on: “The Heirs of Bloch and Febvre. Annals, historiography and nouvelle histoire in France 1945-1980”), Technical University of Darmstadt |
| 1984 | Dr. phil. in History (with a work on: “Parties and Unions. The union strategies of the communist parties in Italy and France since 1970”), University of Münster |
Work Experience
| 10/2011-03/2012 | Visiting Fellow at the European Studies Centre of St Antony’s College Oxford |
| 10/2010-07/2011 | Fellow at the IGK „Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History“, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2003, 2006, 2010 | Visiting Professor (1 month) at the « Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales » and the « Université Denis Didérot -Paris 7 » |
| since 1996 | Representative Professor for modern and contemporary History, Trier University |
| 1987-1996 | Assistant lecturer at the Institute for History, TU Darmstadt and chair for contemporary history |