Vita

Dr. Mark Keck-Szajbel

• 2020-2022
  Lead academic advisor for the exhibition on Transnational Travel in the East Bloc at the Dokumentationszentrum Alltag der DDR (Eisenhüttenstadt)
  
  
• 2016-2019
  Organizer with funding from the Wende Museum (Culver City) for ZIP Summer Schools in Frankfurt Oder, 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019
  
  
• 2016-2017
  Grant from the Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung for the ZIP Summer School, Frankfurt Oder
  
  
• 2015-2016                                                                                                                                                          
  Post-Doctoral Fellow for the History of Consumption, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

• Since August 2012
  Academic Research Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Poland Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder
  
  

• 2009-2013
  Ph.D. studies at the University of California, Berkeley, topic: The Borders of Friendship: Transnational Travel and Tourism in the East bloc, 1972-1989
  
  

• 2012
  Research Fellow at the Institute for East European History and Geography, Tübingen
  
  

• 2011 
  Guest lecturer and visiting scholar at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder
  
  

• 2010-2011
  Research scholar based at Charles University, Prague
  
  

• 2010
  Visiting scholar at the German Polish-Institute, Darmstadt
  
  

• 2007-2011
  Graduate instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of History
  
  

• 2008
  Visiting scholar at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder
  
  

• 2007-2008
  Research assistant for Prof. Jason Wittenberg in the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Berkeley
  
  

• 2006-2007
  Master studies in Late Modern European History at the University of California, Berkeley
  
  

• 2007
  Curatorial assistant in German and Slavic Collections, Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley
  
  

• 2003-2007
  Master studies at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Contemporary History and West Slavic Philology
  
  

• 2004-2006
  Research assistant at the Institute for East European History and Geography, Tübingen
  
  

• 2003-2004
  Socrates exchange student at the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań
  
  

• 2001-2003  
  Bachelor studies at the University of Oregon in History and Germanic Languages and Literatures (magna cum laude)
  
  

• 2001-2002
  Exchange student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  
  

• 1996-2000
  Undergraduate studies at Wichita State University, Newman University, Portland Community
  College and Portland State University
  
  

• 1998
  Graduation from Wichita High School East
  
  

• 1996-1997
  Exchange student in Winsen/Luhe
  
  

• 1994-1996
  High school studies at the International Baccalaureate Wichita