Academic Positions

current


2014

2009-2012


2003-2008


2002-2003

2000-2002


1999-2000

1996-1998

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley: Department of Classics and Department of Comparative Literature; Medieval Studies Program

Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich

Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley: Department of Classics and Department of Comparative Literature; Medieval Studies Program 

Research Fellow and Lecturer for Medieval and Early Modern Latin, University of Tuebingen, Faculty for Modern and Medieval Languages

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cologne, Zentrum fuer Altertumswissenschaften

Frances-Yates-Fellow and Associated Postdoctoral Fellow, The Warburg Institute, London

Research Associate at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica

Junior Research Fellow, University of Tuebingen

Education

2000

1996

1993


1990

Ph.D. (Dr.phil.) in Medieval Latin (summa cum laude), University of Tuebingen

MA (with distinction) in Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, University of Tuebingen

Intermediary exams (=BA exams) in Latin Philology, Greek Philology, Medieval Latin Philology, German Philology, University of Tuebingen

A-Levels (Abitur), Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Heilbronn, Germany

Fellowships and Grants

• 2011 Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley
  
• 2010 Faculty Research Grant, UC Berkeley
• 2003-08 Foundational grant for research fellowship (5 yrs) from the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 2002 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Cologne
• 2001 Postdoctoral Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), to study at The Warburg Institute, London
• 2000 Frances-Yates-Fellowship, The Warburg Institute, London
• 1996-99 Junior Research Fellowship, University of Tuebingen
• 1992-96 Undergraduate and graduate scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes