About

I am associate professor of history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and currently also chair of the department. I did my Ph.D. at Georgetown University, specializing in modern Central European history. My research focuses on the construction of national identities and nationalist mobilization in the German-Polish borderlands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More generally, I work on questions related to nationalism, gender, religion, and colonialism/empire. I teach broadly in modern European and world history and in recent years have focused increasingly on public history and the Digital Humanities.