Professor for Transregional Cultures of KnowledgeCV
Academic Positions
| 10/2022- | Appointment as Professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge at the University of Regensburg |
| 04/2022-09/2022 | Guest Professorship (Vertretungsprofessur) for Global History at the Free University of Berlin |
| 10/2016-03/2022 | Head of Volkswagen "Freigeist" Junior Research Group »The Cold War's Clash of Civilizations« at Center for Global History, Free University of Berlin |
| 09/2015-06/2016 | Harvard Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University |
| 10/2014-08/2015 | Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Zentralasien-Seminar, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
| 09/2013-06/2014 | Harvard Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University |
Academic Training
| 07/2013 | Awarded D.Phil. in History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| 10/2011-07/2013 | Doctoral Student at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| 09/2011 | Awarded M.Phil. in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| 10/2009-06/2011 | M.Phil. Student in Economic and Social History at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| 10/2008-09/2009 | Fulbright Scholar and Student of History and Slavic Studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 09/2004-06/2008 | Bachelor's Student in German Studies and European Cultural Studies at Princeton University |
Research
Research Interests
- History of the Soviet Union in a global context; socialist internationalism; Soviet development aid in the Global South; Communist movements in the Global South
- History of Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran
- Entanglements between the post-socialist world and the Islamic world
- Imperial entanglements in 19th and 20th century Eurasia: Russian Empire/USSR, Ottoman Empire, Iran, China, Japan
- History of the Cold War in a global context
- History of the spread and reception of revolutionary ideologies: Communism, Islamism, Maoism
- World order politics and the history of international order; alternative international orders (Communism, Pan-Islamism, the Non-Aligned Movement, the New International Economic Order)
- History of international development
- International political economy; global monetary policy
Publications
Monographs
- Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
In Preparation
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Islamist Internationalism: Between the Cold War and Decolonization
Edited Translations
- Carl Schmitt, Writings on War. Cambridge: Polity, 2011
Selected Articles
- “Doomed to Good Relations: The Soviet Union, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Fate of Anti-Imperialism in the 1980s,” The Journal of Cold War Studies (Winter 2022)
- “Asymmetries of Internationalism: Performing and Remembering Subnational Internationalism in the Age of Developed Socialism,” The Russian Review 80:4 (September 2021).
- “‘Neither East Nor West,’ Neither Liberal Nor Illiberal? Iranian Islamist Internationalism in the 1980s,” Journal of World History 31:1 (2020).
- “Persian Visions of Nationalism and Inter-Nationalism in a World at War,” in Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War, Hrsg. v. Marcus Payk und Roberta Pergher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
- “Graveyard of Development? Development in Cold War Afghanistan,” in The Development Century, Hrsg. v. Erez Manela und Stephen Macekura. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- “An Union Reframed: Postwar Soviet Documentary Photography and Central Asia,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 17:3 (Sommer 2016).
- “Getting Re-Acquainted with the 'Muslims of the USSR': Staging Soviet Islam in Iran and Turkey, 1980-1982,” Ab Imperio (4/2011).
- “Under a Red Veil: Staging Afghan Emancipation in Moscow,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 38:1 (2011).
- “Soviet Nationalities Policy, USSR in Construction, and Soviet Documentary Photography in Comparative Context, 1931-1937,” Ab Imperio (2/2010)
Teaching
Winter Semester 2024/25
- American Conservatism: Intellectuals, Movements, Institutions
- Central Asia from Independence to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 1991-2022
- The Iranian Revolution: A Global History
- What Is American Conservatism?
Summer Semester 2024
- The 1970s
- The Cold War: A Global History
- Regional Histories of the Cold War: Europe, Asia, the Middle East
- Russia's Wars
- Tips, Tricks and Hacks: How to Design, Write and Revise a Research Project in the Humanities and Area Studies
Winter Semester 2023/24
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History Lab: Mit digitalen Archiven forschen und wissenschaftliche Kurzvideos produzieren am Beispiel der digitalisierten Archive des Völkerbundes
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Trauma and Cultural Production in Post-Conflict Societies: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon
Summer Semester 2023
- The Cold War: A Global History
- Colonization and Decolonization in Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe and Eurasia
- Hannah Arendt
Winter Semester 2022/23
- Research Colloquium for Transregional History
- Afghanistan and the Great Powers
- Transregional Eurasia, 1850s-Present
Cooperations
Internal Funding Programs at the University of Regensburg
- "UR Fellows" Funding Program (Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations and Interdisciplinary Networking at the University of Regensburg, together with Dr. Dani Nassif for Project "Writing a “History Without Documents”: Using Literary and Creative Sources to Write the History of Post-Conflict Societies), (2023-2024)
- "freiraum2023@ur" Funding Program (Program for Development and Testing of Innovative Ideas in Digital Teaching for the Project "Researching with Digitized Archives and Producing Short Videos"), (2023)
- Host for Prof. Dr. Mia Fuller, the 1st Berkeley-Regensburg Guest Professor (2023)(Press Release)
- Outgoing Fellowship Program, Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" (University of Michigan), (2023) (Report)
Other Funding Programs
- Funding from the Gerda and Hermann Weber Foundation (Gerda-und-Hermann-Weber-Stiftung) for the Planned 2027 Conference "Communist Regimes and the Global Economy Since the 1970s" (2024)
- Funding from Bavarian-Czech Academic Agency (BTHA) for International Workshop "Central Asia trans/regional: New Regional Studies Approaches" (2024)
- Funding from Point Alpha Research Institute for International Workshop "Reform's Long Shadows: Global Reactions to Perestroika and ‘Reform and Opening Up,’ 1978-1991" (More Information) (2023)
