Academic Positions

August 2017 - Present - Professor (Political Systems in North America), John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin 

October 2012 - August 2017: Professor of North America Politics, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

October 2009 – September 2012: Visiting Professor of North American Politics at the John F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

2008 - 2009: Research Associate at the Centre for North American Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

2001 - 2008: Associate Professor (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Centre for North American Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

Other Positions

2024 - Present: President of the "German Association for American Studies"

2024 - Present: Board Member of the Foundation "Toleranz und Humanität"

2024 - Present: Board Member of the Foundation on German-American Academic Relations

2024 - Present: Board Member of the Association of German-American Centers

2023 - Present: Member Board of Trustees "John McCloy Transatlantic Forum", .              Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main). 

2020 - 2023 - Institute Director John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

2019 - Present - Executive Board Member German Association of American Studies (DGfA)

2017 - 2019: Institute Director John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

2015 - 2024:  Executive Board Member German Association of Canadian Studies in German-     Speaking Countries (GKS)

2013 - 2023: Member of the Board of Directors at the Graduate School of North American Studies

2013 - Present: Country Expert USA, Sustainable Governance Indicators, Bertelsmann Stiftung

2013 - 2023: Member of the Board of Directors at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

2011 - 2017: MA-Advisor North American Studies, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

2011 - 2013:  Chair of Research Council 39: Welfare States and Developing Countries, International Political Science Association (IPSA)

2010 - 2013: Lecture at the FUBIS Summer School, FU Berlin (in cooperation with the Fulbright Commission

2009 - 2015: Speaker of the Working Group “Comparative Welfare State Research”, German Political Science Association)

2001 - 2008: Member of the Board of Directors at the Centre for North American Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

Education

1997 - 2002: Dissertation in Political Science. Topic: Nationalist Movements and State Power in Canada and France.

1990 - 1995: Magister (M.A.) in Political Science, History and Philosophy