CV

• 2016 – 2025 Assistant professor for Modern History  and Social History, University of Münster
• Juni 2024 - May 2025 Fellowship at the University of Antwerp
• 2009 – 2016 Lecturer in Social and Economic History, University of Münster
• 2008 – 2009 Teaching assistant at the Department of History, University of Münster
• 2003 - 2007 Research assistant in project (DFG): „Beziehungen und Ressourcenflüsse in der ländlichen Gesellschaft: Soziale Netzwerke in Westfalen im 19. Jahrhundert“
• April – November 2003 / May – December 2007 Parental leaves

CV

Publications

• with Henning Bovenkerk, "Consumer revolution in north-western Germany: Material culture, global goods, and proto-industry in rural households in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries", The Economic History Review 76,2 (2023), 551-574.
  [DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13192]
• with Henry French and Richard Paping (eds.): Landless Households in Rural Europe 1600-1900. Boydell Studies in Rural History 3. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv28m3gjs]
• "Kinship Networks in Northwestern German Rural Society (18th/19th Centuries)", in: The Power of Networks. Prospects of Historical Network Research, ed. by Marten Düring, Florian Kerschbaumer, Linda von Keyserlingk and Martin Stark, 110-124. Routledge 2020. [DOI (volume): https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315189062 ]
• "Coffee, Mind and Body. Global material culture and the eighteenth-century Hamburg import trade" (gemeinsam mit Ulrich Pfister), in: The Global Lives of Things. The material culture of connections in the early modern world, ed. by Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello, 221-240. London: Routledge 2016. [DOI (volume): https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315672908]
• "Soziale Netzwerke und Klassenbildung in der ländlichen Gesellschaft. Eine vergleichende Mikroanalyse (Westfalen, 1750–1874)", Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 54: 25-53 (2014).
  [stabile URL: https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/afs/bd54/afs-54-2014-02-fertig.pdf]
• Familie, verwandtschaftliche Netzwerke und Klassenbildung im ländlichen Westfalen (1750-1874). Quellen und Forschungen zur Agrargeschichte, Bd. 54. Stuttgart: Lucius&Lucius 2012. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783828260047]
• "Rural Society and Social Networks in Nineteenth-Century Westphalia: The Role of Godparenting in Social Mobility", Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (4): 497-522 (2009).
  [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2009.39.4.497]

Full publications list

Academic memberships

• Management Committee of European Rural History Organisation, Regional representative for Central Europe
• Network chair des Netzwerks ‚Material and Consumer Culture’, biannual international European Social Science History Conference
• Co-Editor Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online, section 'Life forms and social change' and 'Economy'
• Scientific Advisory Board Rural History Yearbook / Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes
• Member of the DFG-Netzwerk „Erbfälle und Eigentumsübertragungen – Erbpraktiken im Spannungsfeld von Staat und Familie seit 1800“
• Member of the Center for Digital Humanities Münster
• Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD)
• Arbeitsgruppe Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft im VHD
• Fellowship im Forschungsnetzwerk des ‚Nederlands Agronomisch Historisch Instituut‘, Groningen/Wageningen
• Gesellschaft für Agrargeschichte (GfA)
• Forschungsnetzwerk Patrinus. European Network for a Social and Cultural History of Baptism and Godparenthood, Mailand/Paris
• COST Action A34 (European Science Foundation): ‚Gender and Well-Being: Interactions between Work, Family and Public Policies‘ (2005-2009)

Projects

An overview of current and completed projects can be found here.