I have taught over 40 courses on a vast range of topics at Bielefeld Universtiy, Humboldt University of Berlin, Heidelberg University, and University of Konstanz. Geographically, the focus is on North America (USA, Canada), Russia/the Soviet Union, and Germany. The central themes of these courses are globalization and transnational interdependence, religious history, and the history of capitalism. I am particularly interested in pedagogy and continuously developing my teaching skills. As part of these efforts, I received a certificate in university didactics from the Berlin Center for University Teaching. My didactic concept is based on the active-learning approach, which promotes active and independent student learning. I also have cross-epochal and cross-faculty co-teaching experience and, as a core faculty member in the joint Global History program of the Free and Humboldt Universities in Berlin between 2014 and 2024, substantial experience in teaching in English.
Current courses at Bielefeld University
Special Issue: “Migrants and Migration: Germans to North America in the 19th and 20th Centuries.” In Global Histories: A Student Journal, Special Vol. 5 (2019) (Co-published with students from a seminar of the same name at Humboldt University of Berlin in the winter term of 2017/2018).
In collaborating with students, I developed the “Lutz'scher Doppeltrichter zur geschichtswissenschaftlichen Analyse” as a tool for designing research papers. The English version of the "Lutz Double Funnel for Historical Analysis" in currently being developed.