Awards

2025: Honorable Mention, Kimberly Hanger Prize | Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (with Julie Weise for “ Migrating concepts”).
2025: Prize for the best social science journal article from the Latin American Studies Association (with Julie Weise for “ Migrating concepts”).
2023: UOS Teaching Period. Research, teach, exhibit: Virtual learning spaces in historical studies
2017: Kalliope Prize from the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven for practical migration research
2012: Nomination for the Hans Mühlenhoff Prize for good teaching at the University of Osnabrück
2010: Prize for outstanding publications from the Faculty of Economics at RWTH Aachen University
2001: Wilhelm Borchers Plaque from RWTH Aachen University for outstanding dissertations