Institutional
Affiliations and Education
Institutional Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany
Affiliations Department of
History
Research Associate, 2008-present; Instructor
and Research Assistant, 1993-99
Max-Planck-Institute
of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Historical Archives
Research Associate, 1999-2016
Free
University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Center
for Human and Health Sciences/Institute for the History of
Medicine
Research Associate, 2001-2003
Cornell
University, New York City
Department of Psychiatry
DeWitt-Wallace Fellow, 2000-2001
Education University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. 1997 (Department of History)
Thesis: The
Birth of Clinical Psychiatry: Power, Knowledge, and
Professionalization in Germany, 1867-1914
Advisor: Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy
Professor of European Civilization
Major Field: Modern
European History; Minor Field: History of Science
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Munich, Germany
M.A.
1990 (Department of History)
Thesis:
Emil
Kraepelin: Leben und Werk des Psychiaters im Spannungsfeld
zwischen Irrationalität und positivistischer Wissenschaft
Advisor: Rüdiger vom Bruch
Major Field: Modern
European History; Minor Fields: Medieval History and Renaissance
Philosophy
Lewis and Clark
College, Portland, Oregon
B.A. 1984
(with honors) (Department of History)
Thesis:
Peter Altenberg: A Genius without Faculties
Advisor: Henry Bair
Major Fields: History and
Mathematics