Event Organizing

Co-Instructor with Dr. Shawntay Stocks, “Service-Learning 101: Creating Community-Engaged Courses,” an interactive online workshop hosted by Transform Mid-Atlantic with 12 participants from member institutions of Transform Mid-Atlantic, November 14, 2025.

Organizer, field trip to The Sanctuary Collective, 100 Franklin St, Baltimore, and conversation with Coach Sam Brand, the founder of the Sanctuary and director of Team Melo, a Morgan State alum, a four-time state champion with Poly, as well as Greg Butler, a former basketball player at Poly and a dean at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, April 15, 2026

Organizer and facilitator, conversation with Breira Barksdale, CEO of Girlsgettingbetter, founder and director of the Barksdale Women’s Invitational, the only NCAA-sanctioned women’s summer league in Maryland, April 1, 2026

Organizer and facilitator, Ethan Bartlett, Johns Hopkins graduate class of 2022, currently a Research Data Analyst at the Center for Gun Policy, Bloomberg School for Public Health; former JHU basketball player and a recurrent player in the pro-am men’s Brunson League, February 18, 2026

Organizer and facilitator, John Ellis, Johns Hopkins graduate class of ’25, currently a Teach for America fellow and math teacher at Forest Park High School; spoke about his experiences transitioning from college to teaching at a West Baltimore predominantly Black school in the seminar “Baltimore, Basketball, and the Legacy of Bentalou,” February 25, 2026

Organizer and facilitator, Coach Paul Franklin, Bentalou native and player, coeducator in the seminar “Baltimore, Basketball, and the Legacy of Bentalou;” former Poly and Morgan State basketball player, returned in 2014 to restart the free after-school basketball program “Project Survival” as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, February 4, 2026. 

Organizer and facilitator, conversation between undergraduate students in “The History of Modern Germany” and Katharina Hacker, PhD candidate at the International Center for the Study of Culture, Gießen, Germany, about her research on the genocide on Ovaherero and Nama in the colony of German South West Africa (today’s Namibia) and the impact of Germany’s official recognition of the genocide in 2021, December 4, 2025.

Organizer and facilitator, conversation between undergraduate students in “The History of Modern Germany” and Dr. Efe Can Özek (University of Kiel, Germany) about political transnationalism and the Turkish-descending communities in Germany as independent actors and pawns in Turkish and German politics, November 20, 2025.

Organizer and facilitator, conversation between undergraduate students in “The Cold War as Sports History” and Pat McFarland, former student athlete at Saint Joseph University, a former player on the US national team and an ABA professional, March 12, 2025.

Organizer, workshop for undergraduate students in the Brundage Collection, an acquisition from the East Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, at the Archeology Museum at Johns Hopkins University, facilitated by archivist Kate Gallagher. The collection contains pieces of East Asian and Ancient European and Middle Eastern objects from the private collection of Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, 1952-1972, February 12, 2025.

Second voluntary field trip for history majors and friends to the Bmore Historic Unconference, hosted by the Baltimore Museum of Industry, September 27, 2024.

Organizer, workshop in the archive of The Afro, the oldest, continuously running Black-owned newspaper in the US, facilitated by Afro Charities archivists Oyinda Omoloja, for students at Johns Hopkins University and the AP African American history class at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, November 6, 2024.

Organizer, field trip to the Maryland Center for History and Culture with students from Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute to explore the exhibition “Passion and Purpose. Voices of Baltimore’s Civil Rights Activists” and consult archival collections. Tours and workshops facilitated by museum educators Deborah Wood and Winter BearKing, October 16, 2024.

Organizer and facilitator, conversation with Marina Ayuso and Nina Weiss, JHU alumnae and members of the NBC Sports research team about their experiences supporting broadcasting the Olympics in Paris, Beijing, and Tokyo, April 3, 2024.

Organizer and facilitator , conversation between undergraduate students and Pat McFarland, former student athlete at Saint Joseph’s and former ABA professional basketball player, February 28, 2024.

Organizer and facilitator, Zoom conversation between undergraduate students and Daniel Freund (Green Party), Member of the European Parliament, and filmmaker Michael Wech about Hungary, the EU, and democratic backsliding and the documentary Hello, Dictator! Victor Orbán, the EU and the Rule of Law (Broadview Production, 2021), April 4, 2023.

“Fascination of Science. 60 Portraits of Pioneering Researchers,” by Herlinde Koelbl. Photo portrait exhibition co-sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the United States, Bloomberg Hall, Johns Hopkins University, February 24 – March 19, 2022.

Roundtable: “Science, Representation, and Visibility,” opening event for the photo exhibition “Fascination of Science,” 25 February 2022, with Professor Karen Fleming (Biophysics), Women of Whiting, and the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures.

Professor Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton): “Democracy against Populism?”, sponsored by GRLLL, Max Kade Center  for Modern German Thought, and the Department for Political Science,  co-organized by European Horizons, April 2, 2020. [cancelled due to COVID-19]

Ali Çan: “Whose German? Diversity & Race in Germany, 2019,” co-sponsored by the German Embassy, GRLL, the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, and European Horizons, 19 November 2019.

“Baltimore 1968: Memories & Legacies,” with Eddie Conway and Ralph Moore, moderated by Dominique Hazzard, co-funded by the Center for Social Concern and the Billie Holiday Project for the Liberation of Arts, Reginald F. Lewis Museum for African-American History & Culture in Maryland, 14 November 2019.

DAAD DozentInnentreffen, co-organized with Niko Switek (UW Seattle) and Maria Zinfert (Montréal) Portland, OR, 3 October 2019. With a talk by Timothy Brown (Northeastern) and a roundtable with Martine Béland (Montréal) and Karin Bauer (McGill). Click here for program.

GSA Seminar “Environments, Power, and Resources in German Central Europe,” co-organized with Adrian Mitter (Toronto/ Marburg), GSA Conference, Portland, OR, 3-6 October 2019.

Bild – Archiv – Geschichte(n). Deutsche Blicke auf Osteuropa. 

Ein Workshop des Herder-Instituts, Marburg, für das International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Gießen, 2. Juli 2018.

Lecture: “Historical Network Research: The Case of a Rural Credit Market in the 19th Century” & Workshop: “Data Collection + Visualization of Networks in History + Culture,“15-16 November 2017.

with Dr. Martin Stark (ILS Aachen). A two-part event series co-organized with Prof. Dr. Katharina Stornig (GCSC, Neuere und Neueste Geschichte) und Dr. Elke Bauer (Herder Institute).

Memory, Transitional Justice, and the Power of Images

Masterclass with Dr. Katja Wezel (Pittsburgh), a cooperation between the Herder Institute, Marburg, and the GCSC & GiZO, Gießen, 14 Dezember 2016.

The Knowledge Factor. Refugees in East and Central Europe, 1912-2001. LGSch Annual Convention 2016, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, 8-9 Dezember 2016.

Lost in a Digital World? Documenting Art Monuments & Photographs in the 21st Century, co-organizer of the workshop with Barbara Fichtl and Ksenia Stanicka-Brzezicka, Herder Institute, a joint workshop at the University of Pittsburgh,15 November 2016.

Historical Cartography, a joint workshop of the Central European University, Budapest, and the Herder Institute, Marburg. In cooperation with Dr. Madalina Veres (Institute for Advanced Studies, Budapest) and Dr. Christian Lotz (Herder Institute), 14-16 March 2016.