C.V. / Career
| since 2011 | Chairman of the History of the Ruhr Foundation |
| since 2011 | Chair of Social and social movements at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, and Director of the Institute of Social Movements (ISB) |
| 2005-2011 | Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History |
| 2003-2008 | Chair of a European Science Foundation (ESF) programme entitled 'Representations of the Past: National Histories in Europe' |
| 2000-2005 | Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan/Wales and Co-founder and co-director of the Hefcw-funded Centre for Border Studies |
| 1991-2000 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the School of European Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff |
| 1990-1991 | Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Plymouth |
| 1987-1990 | D. Phil at the University of Oxford about ""The Labour Party and the SPD. A Comparison of their Structure and Development and a Discussion of the Relations Between the Two Movements, 1900 - 1933" |
| 1986-1987 | Student assistant to Prof. Schmidt at the University of Cologne, Politics Dept. |
| 1985 - 1987 | Studies in History, Political science and German literature at the University of Cologne |
| 1983 | Abitur (a-level exam) |
Grants / "Fellowships"
| 1987-1990 | Rhodes scholarship at the University of Oxford, Trinity College |
| 2009/10 | Visiting Professor at the University Paris 2 |
| 1985-1990 | Scholarship of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
Other professional activities
| from 2009 | Chair (designate) of the German History Society |
| Seit 2008 | member of the advisory council of the project 'Transnational Humanities',financed by the Korea Foundation |
| 2006 | appointed external evaluator of the German research council's (DFG) Excellence Initiative, evaluating German universities |
| From 2005 | member of the Irish Research Council for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Postgraduate Award Board |
| From 2003 | General editor, together with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner of the six volume-book series "Writing History" |
| From 2002 | Co-chair of the 'History and Theory' network of the biannual European Social Science History Conference (with Chris Lorenz, Amsterdam, and Thomas Welskopp, Göttingen) |
| 2007 - 2009 | member of AHRC peer review panel 4: History |
| 2006 - 2008 | member of the advisory board of the National Museums project, funded by the European Commission and chaired by Professor Peter Aaronson |
| 2005 - 2008 | Society of Author's Tieck-Schlegel Translation Price judge |
| 2003-2008 | Chair of a European Science Foundation (ESF) programme entitled 'Representations of the Past: National Histories in Europe' |
| 2001-2006 | Executive committee member of the Labour History Society |
| 1997-2000 | Committee member of the German History Society |
| 1996-2000 | Board member of the British Centre at the Max-Planck-Institute for History, Göttingen |
