Awards &
Activities
Awards &
Fellowships:
2010: Visiting Professorship, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
2010: Visiting Professorship, Volda University College, Norway
2009: NAACP Julius E. Williams Distinguished Community Service Award
2007-2009: Postdoctoral Fellowship for North American History, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
2006: Ruprecht-Karls-Prize 2006, University of Heidelberg for “The ‘Other’ Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-72”
2005-06: Visiting Fellow, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
2002-05: VW Research Fellow, Volkswagen Foundation
2002: Travel Grant, Schurman Verein e.V., Heidelberg
2001: Thesis Grant, Free University of Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin
2000: The Alpha Delta Phi Grant, English Department, Amherst College, Amherst
Professional
Activities:
Member of the Advisory Board, “Cultural Diplomacy in Africa: A Forum for Young Leaders” and “Black History Month,” Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD, Berlin), 2009-present
Member of the Advisory Board of the Black German Cultural Society, 2009-present
Member of International Advisory Council of Peace History Society, 2009-present
Editorial Board Member of “The Sixties – A Journal of Politics, History and Culture” (Routledge, London/New York), 2008-present
Co-Editor of publication series “Protest, Culture and Society” (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford), 2008-present
Co-Editor of publication series “Transatlantische Historische Studien” (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart), 2009-2011
Coordinator and Scientist-in-Charge of the Research Network “European Protest Movements Since 1945“, 2006-2010
Co-Founder of International Center for Protest Research
Co-Founder of International Research Forum on Protest Movements, Activism and Social Dissent (IRF Protest)
Affiliations:
Moveout (An International Cross-disciplinary Network for the Study of Social Movemment Outcomes)