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
