2024-present High School Teacher for Civics and English, Evangelical High School, Frankfurt Oder
2023-2024 Language Instructor, ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt
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 (since 2023 Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian 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
