I currently work as Head of Academic Engagement at Swissnex in Boston. Previously I was an Associate and Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, from 2014-2021.
As a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, I use the lenses of nationalism, migration, and the environment to examine the region’s shifting boundaries — both political and social.
My first book, Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland: Upper Silesia, 1848-1965, examines the fraught efforts of nationalist activists to earn the long-term loyalties of a bilingual, Catholic borderland population. In addition to this monograph, I have published several book chapters and articles on related topics.
At LSU and Harvard I have taught a range of courses on topics including Central Europe, fascism, comparative genocides, nationalism and communism, and environmental history.