• Kriminalitätsgeschichte
  • Rechtskultur und Rechtsanthropologie
  • Soziale Netzwerke
  • Stadtgeschichte
  • Handels- und Konsumgeschichte
  • Materielle Kultur
  • Globalgeschichte

Vorträge 2016:

“Property: More Important than Honour in early modern Life and Law?” Paper to be presented at the Early Modern Europe Seminar Series, University of Oxford, November 2016.
“Unpaid Debts and Changing Legal Lives?  Legal Culture and the Growth of Literacy and Writing in early modern Germany.” Paper presented at Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Bruges, August 2016 (session organiser for the panel: Legal Culture in Early Modern Germany).
Session organiser of Global Consumption in European Cities (1500-1850) at the European Association of Urban History bi-annual conference, Helsinki, August 2016.
“Cottons and Consumer Change in early modern Bern.” Paper presented at the Colloquium – Neuere Geschichte, University of Bern, May 2016.
“Consuming Cottons in a Golden Age?  New Textiles in early modern Bern.” Paper presented at Early Modern Textiles and Material Culture: Consumption, Distribution and Global Interaction, University of Bern, April 2016.

 

Vorträge 2015:

“Baumwolle, Kaffee, Tee und Tabak: ein Boom der globalen Güter im frühneuzeitlichen Bern?”  Paper presented at the Arbeitstagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Frühe Neuzeit, Globale Verflechtungen – Europa neu denken, Heidelberg, September 2015.
“Cotton, Coffee, and Tobacco: the Exotic and the Foreign in early modern Bern.” Paper presented at Spices and Stockings: Cultures of Consumption in the Periphery 1600-1850,
Uppsala University, June 2015 (invited speaker).
 “An affinity for something new?  Cotton, Coffee, and Tobacco in the lives of early modern Swiss.” Paper presented at the Workshop “Lives and the Life Cycle: Selves and Others 1400-1800,” University of Oxford, June 2015.
“Cotton, Coffee, and Tobacco: the Rise of Global Goods in early modern Bern?” Paper presented at the Colloquium – Neuere Geschichte, University of Bern, May 2015.
“Legal Knowledge in the Administration of Justice: A Saxon perspective.” Paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin, March 2015 (session organiser: The Role of Learned Knowledge in Civic Government).
(With Gabi Schopf), “Engaging with the global on a local level: Naming Indian Cottons in the German-Speaking World.” Paper presented at Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär: Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, Vanderbilt University, March 2015.

BORIS-Publikationsliste (Bern Open Repository and Information System)

  • European Association of Urban History
  • German Historical Society
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Sixteenth Century Society
  • 2011-12 Hanseatic Scholarship (Alfred Toepfer Stiftung), held at the Technical University of Dresden
  • 2011 Participant at the German Historical Institute’s Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in Washington DC (award included airfare and expenses in Washington)
  • 2010-11 DAAD Ten Month Research Grant for PhD Students and Postdocs, held at the Technical University of Dresden
  • 2008-09 Landesstiftung Stipendium, Baden-Württemberg, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • 2008-09 Vernon Oliver Stong Graduate Scholarship in German & European Studies, York University
  • 2008-09 Joseph Webber Memorial Fund for International Education scholarship, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
  • 2008-09 Ontario International Education Opportunity Scholarship, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen/York University
  • 2008-09 Baden-Wurttemberg Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst (MWFK) Stipendium, held at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
  • 2007-08 York University, M.A. Entrance Fellowship (tuition bursary and $10,000)
  • 2006-07 Best Undergraduate History Essay Nominee, Department of History, York University
  • 2006-07 Landesstiftung Stipendium, Baden-Württemberg, held at Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
  • 2006-07 York University, Letter of Recognition for International Experience