Curriculum vitae
2024
Thomas Mann Fellow (July-November), Thomas Mann House, Pacific Palisades
seit 2024
Senior Research Fellow at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
2022 - 2023
Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Legal Unity and Pluralism", University Münster
2021 - 2022
Curator of the Exhibition "Citizenships. France, Poland, Germany since 1789" from July 01, 2022 to March 12, 2023, German Historical Museum
since 2022
Fellow of the Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Erfurt (Center for Advanced Study)
Senior Research Fellow, Global Constitutionalism, WZB
2021
Visiting Research Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Florence
2019
Member of the Academia Europaea
2018 - 2019 Alfred-Grosser guest professor, Sciences Po, Paris
2016
Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur" (“Law as Culture”), Bonn
2015
Guest researcher Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes, Université de Montréal
2015
Guest professor Université Paris 8
2013
Fellow of the Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris (until 2014)
since 2011
Head of the WZB Rule of Law Center (from 2015 Center for Global Constitutionalism)
2010
Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt (until 2012); Fellow of the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (until 2011)
2009
Appointment as Associate Professor at the Free University of Berlin
2006
Alfred-Grosse guest professor at the Institut d‘Études Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
Since 2004
Regular guest visits (guest professorships) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
2003
Guest professor at the University of Cologne, Department of History
2002-2011
Director of the research group “Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization” at the WZB together with Jürgen Kocka (until 2004) and Dieter Rucht (since 2005)
2001-2002
Guest professor at the Free University of Berlin, Department of History
2000-2002
Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt a. Main); head of the research group “National Socialist Dictatorship“ in the project “The Europe of Dictatorship. Economic Control and Law”
2000
Habilitation in Modern History; assistant professor at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin
1995
Visiting professor at the European University Institute, Florence
1991-1997
Research Assistant at the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Free University of Berlin
1990
Dr. phil. (History)
Until 1989
Research Assistant at the Institute of Public Law, University of Freiburg
1984
M.A. (Modern History), University of Freiburg
1982
Law degree
1976-1984
Studies of Law and Modern History at the Universities of Freiburg/Breisgau and Geneva
Fields of Research
- Comparative history of citizenship in 19th and 20th century Europe
- History of civil society
- European constitutional history in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Intellectual history of Europeanism and anti-liberal concepts of Europe
- History of terrorism and counter-insurgency in 20th century France and Germany