Education
University of Kassel, Germany
Habilitation, Modern and Contemporary History, February 2022; conferral of title of Senior Lecturer (Privatdozentin)
University of Göttingen, Germany
Ph.D., Modern History (summa cum laude); October 2012: defense; May 2015: conferral of title
Master of Arts, Modern History (with distinction), June 2006
Universities of Bonn and Göttingen (1999—2006)
Medieval and modern history, English language and literature, art history
List Positions
University of Sheffield, Lecturer in Global History (shortlisted) 06/2024
Max Weber Foundation, Head of India Branch Office (shortlisted) 10/2020
University of Maastricht, Associate Professor of European History in a Global Context (shortlisted) 04/2020
Academic Positions
ICAS:MP, Delhi
01/2022—06/2022: Senior Research Fellow
Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel
04/2021—09/2021: Visiting Professor
10/2014—03/2021: Associate Professor (Juniorprofessorin), Global History / History of Globalization Processes
Göttingen Graduate School of Humanities
10/2013—09/2014: Research Group Leader, Research group on “Multiple Modernities”
Department of Medieval and Modern History, University of Göttingen
04/2012—09/2013: Lecturer, Modern History
Affiliations
Global Partnership Network, University of Kassel (since 04/2020)
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, Kolkata, India: Visiting Researcher (2017)
Orient Institut Beirut, Lebanon: Visiting Doctoral Research Fellow (2010)
Rice University, Houston/Texas, USA: Visiting Doctoral Research Student (2008)
Additional Training
German-Hindi one-to-one tandem sessions with Varsha Patel, M.A., doctoral student at the University of Kassel (2018)
Lecture class and individual one-to-one teaching in Urdu, Humboldt University of Berlin, (2017/18)
One-to-one speech and rhetorics training, Sprechbar, Berlin (2016)
German-Arabic one-to-one tandem sessions with Khaled al-Boushi, B.A., artist in Zossen/Brandenburg (2014—present)
Intensive classes in basic and intermediate Arabic, Landesspracheninstitut (Federal Language Center), University of Bochum (2014)
Mentoring programme for female junior scholars, Faculty of Letters, University of Göttingen, (2013/14)
Workshop “Gender awareness in teaching”, Department of Higher Education/Equality Office, University of Göttingen (2012)
University didactics training programme Hetairos, University of Göttingen (2011)
Classes Arabic I—IV, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen (2008—2014)
Arabic for Non-Arabists, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen (2008)
Arabic for Students of all Disciplines, University of Göttingen (2007/8)
Research Languages
| German | native speaker |
| English | near-native command |
| French | fluent |
| Latin | advanced |
| Arabic | Modern Standard Arabic: advanced (Level B2 of the European Reference Frame) beginner’s knowledge of Lebanese dialect |
| Portuguese | intermediate |
| Hindi/Urdu | beginner |
Professional Memberships
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD)
Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen– und Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG)
Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) (lapsed)
German Studies Association (lapsed)