Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Nordeuropa-Institut

Since 2009 Professor of Scandinavian Studies/Cultural Studies (with an emphasis on history)

Particular research interests

• History of Northern Europe and the Baltic countries, 1500-1914
• History of the Thirty Years' War
• Early modern and modern history of the polar regions
• History of history writing on Northern Europe
• Transnational history of Germany-Northern Europe
• Italian voyage accounts on Northern Europe
• Early modern empire building in Sweden and Denmark
• Regional history of Southwestern Germany and Brandenburg-Prussia and their relations to Northern Europe

Core areas in teaching

• Historical sources and methods
• History of the Reformation in Northern Europe
• The role of North European monarchies during the Thirty Years' War
• The Enlightenment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Northern Europe
• National and regional identities in Northern Europe
• Transnational relations between Berlin/Brandenburg and Northern Europe
• Social and educational policies in Northern Europe from the Reformation to the present
• The First and Second World Wars in Northern Europe

Administration (digest)

• Head of Nordeuropa-Institut (2010-2012)
• Deputy head of Nordeuropa-Institut (2012-2014, 2014-2016, 2018-2020)
• J.G. Herder Forschungsrat (Member of the board 2011-2014)
• Baltische Historische Kommission, Göttingen (Member of the Board 2007-2011)
• Nordost-Institut, Lüneburg (Member of the board 2002-2011)

Awards

• 2012 Special Award, Tallinn University, for „Tallinn. Kleine Geschichte der Stadt" (Tallinn: A concise history; with Karsten Brüggemann) as most excellent scholarly book of the year 2011.