Education
2018 Habilitation - University of Basel, Switzerland
venia legendi in Modern General History
2011 PhD - University of Basel, Switzerland
Jewish Studies
summa cum laude
2006 M.A. - University of Sussex, UK
Modern European Jewish History, Culture, and Thought
with merit
2005 B.A. - University of Basel, Switzerland
Jewish Studies
General history
summa cum laude, double major
Professional Appointments
2021- present SNF PRIMA Professor
University of Bern
2019 - present Private Lecturer in General History
University of Basel
2018 - 2021 Group Leader & PRIMA-grantee
University of Bern
2016 - 2018 Lecturer & post-doctoral researcher
University of Basel
2013 - 2016 Post-doctoral Fellow
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011 - 2013 Assistant
University of Basel
2007 - 2011 Doctoral Fellow & Lecturer
University of Basel
Service Positions
- Member of Independent Commission for the Clarification of Nazi Persecution-Related Claims, SKKG Winterthur
- Independent Advisory Board Member: new exhibition of the Emil Bührle Collection, Kunsthaus Zürich (until 13/10/2023)
- Editorial Board Member: Book series "Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in der Schweiz" (Chronos Verlag Zurich)
- Editorial Board Memeber: Book series "Jüdische Moderne" (Böhlau Verlag/Brill Köln)
- Academic Advisory Board Member: Stadtgeschichte Basel Volume 8, University of Basel. Until Spring 2023
Awards & Fellowships (selection)
- SNSF PRIMA-fellowship
- SNSF-project funding
- Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Schweizerische Akademien für Geisteswissenschaften (SAGW)
- Freiwillig Akademische Gesellschaft Basel (multiple)
- Forschungsfonds der Universität Basel (multiple)
- Gretel und Walter Picard-Weil Stiftung
- Pierre-André & Marly Haas-Fonds
- Jetty, Aron und Simon Blum-Stiftung, Zürich
- Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe (multiple)
- Gerald Westheimer Foundation, New York
- Fellowship Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
- Daat Hamakom Center for the Study of Place in the Modern Jewish World, I-CORE, Israel
- Swiss Contribution Grant of the Swiss Federation
- Braginsky Foundation, Zürich
- Ruth und Paul Wallach Stiftung, Zürich
- Adolf und Mary Mil-Stiftung, Zürich
- Stiftung Irène Bollag Herzheimer
- Max Geldner-Dissertationsfonds der Universität Basel
- Fellowship Dialogik-Stiftung, Zürich
- Shoresh Charitable Fonds