I am a professor of Transnational History at the University of Texas Arlington and a former Humboldt fellow. My areas of study are intercultural transfer, transnational history, the history of philanthropy, and civil society. I teach a range of courses on intercultural transfer and Germany.

• 1998 University of Leipzig, Germany Ph.D. History and German Literature
• 1994 University of Leipzig, Germany M.A. (Staatsexamen), History and German Literature