Functions

Advisory and consulting activities in museums, exhibitions, research projects, and television documentaries; board membership in scientific organizations; commission work; fellowships

Current activities:

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Nuremberg
Member of the Commission on Migration and Participation of the Lower Saxony State Parliament (18th legislative period 2017 to 2022 and 19th legislative period 2022 to 2027)
Curatorium member of the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ›DOMiD – Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany‹, Cologne
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Oldenburg City Museum
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the redesign of a new permanent exhibition at the Focke Museum. Bremen State Museum of Art and Cultural History 2021–2026
Member of the Advisory Board of the Museum of Russian-German Culture and History, Detmold
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Migration, Education, and Cultural Studies (CMC) at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Expert activities for research funding institutions:

German Research Foundation (DFG)
Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover
Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern
Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Vienna
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Jerusalem
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), The Hague
German National Academic Foundation, Bonn
Austrian National Bank Anniversary Fund, Vienna
Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
Lower Saxony Foundation, Hanover
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Brussels
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna
German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
German-French University, Saarbrücken
Association of German Historians, Frankfurt am Main
Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Hanover
European Science Foundation: Humanities in the European Research Area
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Future Concept of the University of Tübingen within the framework of DFG funding for the Excellence Initiative
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study (FRIAS)
Leibniz Association, Bonn
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn
uni:docs program of the University of Vienna
Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, Schwerte
Society for Historical Migration Research (GHM), Bonn

Previous activities:

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation (Federal Foundation), Berlin (2017-2022)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Friedland Museum (2012-2022)
Member of the Advisory Board of the Academy in Exile, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen, and Free University of Berlin (2019-2022)
Member of the Committee of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (2018-2022)
Deputy Chair of the Working Group for the History of Lower Saxony in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2012-2022)
Member of the Committee for the Award of Immanuel Kant Scholarships of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Berlin (2015-2022)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the exhibition project “Work and Migration in the Southwest” at the Technoseum. State Museum of Technology and Work Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim (exhibition duration 2021/22)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the exhibition project “Moving Things. On the Materiality of Flight and Migration” of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, the Friedland Museum, and the exhibition office “Die Exponauten,” Berlin (2020-2022)
Member of the Board of the Council for Migration (RfM), Berlin (2013-2015 and 2018-2021)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the research project “Cultural Heritage as a Resource? Competing Constructions, Strategic Uses, and Multiple Appropriations of Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century” (CHER) at the University of Hanover (2016-2020), funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the research project “Integration through Cooperative Open Space Development – Real-World Laboratories for Strengthening Socio-Ecological Development in Arrival Quarters” (KoopLab) at the University of Osnabrück, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, the Institute for Regional and Urban Development Research in Dortmund, and several practical partners (2018-2020)
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, January 2019
Scientific Advisory Board of Nordwolle Delmenhorst. Northwest German Museum of Industrial Culture, Delmenhorst (2012-2019)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the exhibition project “Experiment Modernism. Bremen after 1918,” Focke Museum. Bremen State Museum of Art and Cultural History (2018/2019)
Member of the preparatory team for the exhibition “Europe and the Sea” at the German Historical Museum, Berlin (exhibition ran from June 2018 to January 2019)
Scientific consultant for the three-part television documentary “Die Reise der Menschheit” (The Journey of Humanity) (ZDF and Arte) 2016-2018, first broadcast in April (Arte) and May (ZDF) 2018 (the production was awarded the German Television Prize in the category “Best Multi-Part Documentary” in February 2019)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the research project “Selectivity and Ambiguity in Work Cultures – A Resource- and Potential-Oriented Design of the Working Environment for Refugees in the Sectors of Elderly Care, IT, and Construction” (SELMA) of the Institute for Work and Technology at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, the Research Institute for Innovative Work Design and Prevention, Gelsenkirchen, and the Institute for City History Gelsenkirchen (2017-2018)
Member of the scientific advisory board for the exhibition project “Protest + New Beginning, Bremen after '68,” Focke Museum. Bremen State Museum of Art and Cultural History (exhibition runs from August 2017 to July 2018)
Member (as expert advisor) of the jury for the competition to design a visitor, media, and documentation center for the Friedland Museum, 2018
Scientific advisor for the four-part television documentary “Der Traum von der neuen Welt” (The Dream of a New World) (NDR and Arte), 2016/17, first broadcast in June 2017
Consultant for the exhibition project “Fled – Expelled – Arrived?! Aspects of Forced Migration in the 20th and 21st Centuries” by the German War Graves Commission, running since February 2016 as a traveling exhibition in numerous locations
Consultant for the exhibition project “The New Germany. On Migration and Diversity,” German Hygiene Museum, Dresden (Exhibition ran from March to October 2014)
Scientific advisory board for the exhibition project “À chacun ses étrangers? France – Allemagne de 1871 à aujourd'hui” / “Etranger – Foreigners in France and Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries.” Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris, and Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (Exhibition dates in Paris: December 2008 to April 2009; in Berlin: October 2009 to February 2010)
Scientific advisor for the exhibition project “Heroes – The Longing for the Extraordinary.” Westphalian State Museum of Industrial Culture, Dortmund (exhibition ran from March to October 2010)
Scientific advisor for the exhibition project “The Gründerzeit 1848–1871. Industry and Dreams Between the Vormärz and the Empire.” German Historical Museum, Berlin (exhibition ran from April to August 2008)
Consultant for the exhibition project “Germany: A Country of Immigration. Migration 1500–2005,” German Historical Museum, Berlin (exhibition ran from October 2005 to February 2006)