Professional Experience
2008-2009: Academic Director, Berlin Consortium for German Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2007-: Editorial Board, Lapham’s Quarterly
2005-: Executive Editor, Journal of the History of Ideas (with Anthony Grafton, Ann Moyer, and Martin Burke)
2005-: Editorial group (founding member of the Arbeitskreis), Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
2004-05: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
2001: Member, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
1999-: Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
1998: Visiting Scholar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
1994-99: Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
1993-95: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Education
1993: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Modern European History
1988: M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Modern European History
1986: B.A. (Honours) University of Winnipeg, History
