Lecturer in Modern European History

Contact Details

Biography

I received an M.A. in modern and medieval history and gender studies from the Technische Universität Berlin, with academic exchanges in Aix-en-Provence, Prague and Voronezh. From 2000 until 2010, I worked at several museums and memorials in Frankfurt, Oranienburg and Berlin, where I conducted research, developed exhibitions and guided visitors. My doctoral research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin examined the fascist Ustasha movement in Croatia, and the mass violence perpetrated by the Ustasha during the Second World War. I spent several months researching in post-Yugoslav, Italian, German and Israeli archives. During my Ph.D.-studies, I was awarded several grants and fellowships, amongst others a research fellowship at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum during the 2006–2007 academic year.

In 2010 I was appointed lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester. I am also deputy director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a key research centre within the School. 

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications 

PhD Supervision

Modern European history: comparative genocide studies; the history of war and violence; comparative studies of fascism; South-eastern European history and Balkan studies; the Holocaust and World War Two-related mass violence; German history prior to 1945.

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

• HS1010 ‘Europe Reshaped, 1815-1914’
• HS2234 ‘Race and Ethnicity: European Encounters with other Cultures’
• HS2349 ‘Stormtroops, Blackshirts, Arrow Cross: Fascist Movements in Europe, 1919-1945’
• HS3745/6 Mass Violence in Europe and its Colonies: The 20th Century (Special Subject over 2 semesters)

Administrative Responsibilities

• Deputy Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, where I am involved in running the centre and planning and organizing lectures, workshops and conferences
• Member of the School's Learning and Teaching Committee
  School Environmental Officer
• Coordinator for the German National Academic Foundation in the Cambridge-Leicester area
• Associate of the research network 'Governance in Southeastern Europe – Cultural and Social perspectives', funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Review Editor for H-Soz-u-Kult, Communication and Information Services for Historians, a part of H-Net. 

Most Recent Publications

1. ‘Ustaša Mass Violence Against Gypsies in Croatia, 1941/42,’ in Anton Weiss-Wendt (ed.) The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reevaluation and Commemoration, ed. (Berghahn, New York, in print)
2. ‘Understanding Ustaša Violence’, in Journal of Genocide Research, 12 (2010), 1–18.
3. ‘Der Unabhängige Staat Kroatien 1941 - 1945. Eine integrierte Gewaltgeschichte des Raumes’, in Radu Harald Dinu et al. (eds), Herrschaft in Südosteuropa. Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven (V&R Unipress, Göttingen, 2012), 195-224.
4. ‘Nation-building and mass violence: The Independent State of Croatia, 1941–45’, in Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust (Routledge, New York, 2011), 291-302.