I received my B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2018, graduating with University Honors (the highest academic award granted by the university). I was the only student in the class to receive High Honors in three departments: History, German Studies, and the College of Letters. My undergraduate thesis, “Gateway to the World: Hamburg and the Global German Empire, 1888-1914,” which I wrote with Erik Grimmer-Solem and Iris Bork-Goldfield, remains a touchstone in my thinking about the intersection between German history and global history.

 

I then received my M.A. from Princeton in 2020, after completing my general exams with a major field in German History since 1770 with Harold James and Yair Mintzker, and minor fields in Empires and Internationalisms with Natasha Wheatley and Latin America since 1800 with Jeremy Adelman. Since then, I’ve taught courses in modern European history, the history of capitalism, and global history since 1300, the latter in conjunction with Princeton’s Global History Lab. I have also been a visiting student at the Universität Hamburg.

 

I also spent three years as President of Princeton’s Graduate History Association, during which time I: sat on the department’s Graduate Policy Committee; worked with department administration to create a covid-19 funding relief package; and helped re-design graduate student professional development programming to reflect the new academic job market. Beyond Princeton, I have consulted on higher education administration for the Open Society Foundations and Central European University in Vienna.

 

On August 29, 2024, I defended my Ph.D. dissertation, “Shaping an Interconnected World: Hamburg, Germany, and the Transformation of Interdependence, 1880-1974.” (Committee: Harold James, Natasha Wheatley, Yair Mintzker, and Steven Press [Stanford]). I am now a Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow in Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.