Awards & Fellowships

• 2010 Visiting Professorship, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
• 2010 Visiting Professorship, Volda University College, Norway
• 2009 NAACP Julius E. Williams Distinguished Community Service Award
• 2007-2009 Postdoctoral Fellowship for North American History, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
• 2006 Ruprecht-Karls-Prize 2006, University of Heidelberg for “The ‘Other’ Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-72”
• 2005-06 Visiting Fellow, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
• 2002-05 VW Research Fellow, Volkswagen Foundation
• 2002 Travel Grant, Schurman Verein e.V., Heidelberg
• 2001 Thesis Grant, Free University of Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin
• 2000 The Alpha Delta Phi Grant, English Department, Amherst College, Amherst

 

Professional Activities

• Member of the Advisory Board, “Cultural Diplomacy in Africa: A Forum for Young Leaders” and “Black History Month,” Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD, Berlin), 2009-present
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Black German Cultural Society, 2009-present
• Member of International Advisory Council of Peace History Society, 2009-present
• Editorial Board Member of “The Sixties – A Journal of Politics, History and Culture” (Routledge, London/New York), 2008-present
• Co-Editor of publication series “Protest, Culture and Society” (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford), 2008-present
• Co-Editor of publication series “Transatlantische Historische Studien” (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart), 2009-2011
• Coordinator and Scientist-in-Charge of the Research Network “European Protest Movements Since 1945“, 2006-2010
• Co-Founder of International Center for Protest Research
• Co-Founder of International Research Forum on Protest Movements, Activism and Social Dissent (IRF Protest)

 

Affiliations

• New Global History
• Moveout (An International Cross-disciplinary Network for the Study of Social Movemment Outcomes)
• The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• American Historical Association
• Organization of American Historians
• German Studies Association
• German Association for American Studies
• Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
• Arbeiterkind.de