Teaching

Academic Year 2025/26

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to offer a First-Year Seminar in fall 2025 titled “Friends or Foes? US-European relations since 1979.”

I am currently preparing a new community-engaged class on sports in Baltimore and the US for spring 2026. We are fortunate to be able to count on Coach Paul Franklin and partner with the Bentalou Winter House League/ Project Survival.

Fall semesters at  Johns Hopkins

“History of Modern Germany,” AS.100.230, undergraduate lecture course.

Check “Anti-Racism, Social & Racial Equity” for more on events ad co-educational projects with partners in Baltimore and Germany.

“The Year 1968: Rebels, Revolutions, and the Right-Wing Backlash,” AS.100.497, undergraduate seminar, writing intensive.

Spring Semesters at Johns Hopkins

“Europe since 1945,” AS.100.270, undergraduate lecture course.

“The Cold War as Sports History,” AS.100.386, undergraduate seminar, writing intensive.

Fall 2019

“History of Modern Germany,” undergraduate lecture course. Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

• Perk: Talk by Ali Çan, “Define German?! Diversity & Racism in Germany, 2019,” on November 19, 2019. Co-sponsored by the German Embassy, GRLL, the Max Kade Center & European Horizons

“The Year 1968: Rebels, Revolutions & the Right-Wing Backlash,” undergraduate seminar. Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

• This is a community-engaged class!
• Joint visit with Dr. Amy Rosenkrans and her social science classes from Graceland Park/ O’Donnell Heights elementary and middle school to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for African-American History & Culture in Maryland on October 30, 2019.
• Public roundtable: “Baltimore 1968: Memories and Legacies,” with Eddie Conway and Ralph Moore, moderated by Dominique Hazzard, R.F. Lewis Museum, November 14, 2019 at 6 pm.

Spring 2019

“Europe since 1945,” lecture course, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

“The Cold War as Sports History,” seminar, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

Fall 2018

“History of Modern Germany,” lecture course, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

“1968 – The Year of Revolt,” undergraduate seminar, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

Winter 2017

“1968 – A European Year” (crosslisted), FB04 Osteuropäische Geschichte, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

Summer 2017

“The Cold War as Sports History” (crosslisted), FB04 Osteuropäische Geschichte, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

Summer 2016

“Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Ungarns im 20. Jahrhundert,” co-teaching with Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger, Fakultät für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

Spring 2015

(Instructor) “Western Civilization II.” College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Fall 2014

(Teaching Assistant) “World War II in Europe.” Lecturer: Dr. Leslie Hammond. University of Pittsburgh.

Spring 2014

(Teaching assistant) “Europe since 1945.” Lecturer: Dr. Gregor Thum. University of Pittsburgh.

Fall 2013

(Teaching Assistant) “U.S. Colonial History.” Lecturer: Randy Scott Smith. University of Pittsburgh.

Spring 2013

(Teaching Assistant) “American Revolution.” Lecturer: Randy Scott Smith. University of Pittsburgh.

Fall 2012

(Teaching Assistant) “U.S. Colonial History.” Lecturer: Randy Scott Smith. University of Pittsburgh.

August 28, 2012

(Instructor) “International Students Orientation,” New Teaching Assistant Orientation, Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education, University of Pittsburgh.

Fall 2011 –  Summer 2012

Peer reviewer & translator (German-English), East Central Europe/ L’Europe du Centre-Est/ Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitung, ed. by M. Janowski, C. Iordachi, B. Trencsényi, M. Prokopovych. Brill Academic Publishers. www.ece.ceu.hu.

Guest doctoral researcher at Pasts, Inc., Central European University, Budapest/ Hungary.

Spring 2011

(Teaching Assistant) “The Collapse of Imperial Russia: From Emancipation to Revolution, 1860-1917.” Lecturer: Randy Scott Smith. University of Pittsburgh

Fall 2010

(Grader) “The English Origins of American Law,” Lecturer: Prof. Janelle Greenberg. University of Pittsburgh

2007- 2008

Research assistant, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder/ Germany.

Spring 2006

(Teaching Assistant) “Introduction to Cultural History,” Lecturer: PD Dr. Andreas Graeber. Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder/Germany