Faculty Member, Dept. of History
Assistant Professor & Director of the Honors Program
About
After having received my PhD from Ludwigs Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) with a study about the eminent Jewish Historian Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891), I was a Starr Fellow at Harvard. After a visiting position at University College Dublin (Ireland), I am since 2007 at Franklin in Lugano, Switzerland.
My research interests are centered around questions of cultural representations and identity politics in historical perspective. Currently, I am working on a project on Migration to Ticino and its impact on the local self-perceptions as well as on perceptions of Ticino/Tessin as a lieu de memoire within larger European discourses.
A further research interest gravitates around the uses of morality for politics ("respectability").
At Franklin, a four year Liberal Arts College, I teach courses on Jewish and Islamic History, Modern European History, and the Global History survey course.
