• Memory Studies, especially Holocaust memory, memory of genocide, and multidirectional memory and global(ized) historical narratives, museum studies

• Contradiction Studies, primarily paradoxical cultural practices and cultural practices that aim at harmonizing supposed contradictions, e.g., through citizenship education

• Global Governmentality, especially with regards to decolonial and postcolonial critique, international relations and politics, security and securitization

• 2022
  PhD from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
  Project: Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums. A Comparative Analysis of Memory as a Means of Government.
• 2017–2022
  Full PhD Scholoarship from the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC).
• 2021
  Junior Fellowship at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich.
• 2018–2022
  Co-Speaker of the GCSC’s Research Area 1: Cultural Memory Studies.
• 2019
  DAAD doctoral research scholarship.
• 2017
  Member of the Memory Studies Association and its working group Critical Thinking on Memory and Human Rights.
• 2016–2017
  Research Track Stipend from Humboldt Graduate School.
• 2013–2016
  M.A. Cultural Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany.
• 2009–2013
  B.A. Cultural Research and Gender Studies, University of Bremen, Germany.

Monograph

• Memorialing the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums, 2023. Berlin: De Gruyter

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• Why collective memory can never be pluriversal: A case for contradiction and abolitionist thinking in memory studies. In: Memory Studies 16(6), 2023, pp 1529-1545. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17506980231202337
• Memory as a means of governmentality. In: Memory Studies, 2023. Accessible at:
  https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221150892
• The coloniality of Holocaust memorialization in post-apartheid South Africa. In: International Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 263–280. Accessible at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab205
• Unlearning Prejudice Through Memory? Contemporary German Memory Politics and Human Rights Education. In: AUC Studia Territorialia (2/2019), 55-79. Accessible at: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363231.2020.4

Publications without peer review

• Gefühlsabfrage am Smartphone. Wie eine Museumsapp den Link zwischen Holocaust und Menschenrechten herstellt. In: Quellen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte (herausgegeben vom Arbeitskreis QGM). https://www.geschichte-menschenrechte.de/fundstuecke/gefuehlsabfrage-am-smartphone

Reviews

• “Efforts in Futurity beyond Reconciliation” [review of: Chavez, Y./Mithlo, N. M. (Hg.). Visualizing Genocide. Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums]. In: International Affairs 99(6), 2023, pp. 2522-23 https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad265.
• Erinnerungskultur im Spannungsfeld zwischen universellen und partikularen Perspektiven [Review on: Natan Sznaider, Fluchtpunkte der Erinnerung. Über Gegenwart von Holocaust und Kolonialismus. Berlin, Hanser Literaturverlage 2022]. In: Einsicht 2022. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts.
• Prescribed Anti-Racism? Historic and Contemporary Challenges to a Global Memory Imperative [Review on: Gilbert, S./ Alba, A.: Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World]. In: KULT_online 61 (2020).
• At the Limits of Transformation? Human Rights Education Between Colonial Conditions and Emancipatory Counter-Projects [Review on: Zembylas, M.& Keet, A. (eds.): Critical Human Rights, Citizenship and Democracy Education, Entanglements and Regenerations. London: Bloomsbury, 2018]. In: KULT_online 57 (2019).

• 2021
  Organization of a panel on Memory and the Future for the (digital) annual conference of the Memory Studies Association.
• 2020
  Co-Organization of the international conference Memories for the Future? Narrating Horizons of Hope in Contemporary Politics out of History (held digitally at JLU Giessen).