Fishing in the Wrong Pond: GDR-Poland Border Conflicts in Everyday Life
Presented at the 2018 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA
The Material Culture of Modern Politics in Cold War Europe
Special issue of the International Journal of History, Culture and Modernity, co-edited with Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, and Philip Wagner.
Two Germanys, ‘One People’? Central Europe, 1945-1990
I designed and regularly teach this second-year module on post-war German history. It examines the social, political, and cultural history of East and West Germany in comparative and transnational perspective.
Late Cold War Tandems: Solidarities and Anxieties of the 1980s
The purpose of this workshop, organised as a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Universiteit Utrecht, is to explore the possibilities of ‘tandem history’ (Kate Brown) as a transnational approach in new research on the final decade of the Cold War.