Large Dams in Latin America in the Twentieth Century”. His PhD thesis “Emigration and failed colonial discourses. ‘Germanness’ in southern Brazil” from Free University Berlin received the Friedrich-Meinecke-Prize in 2014. It was published „Auswanderung als nationalistisches Projekt. ‚Deutschtum‘ und Kolonialdiskurse im südlichen Brasilien (1824–1941)“ in 2016 with Böhlau.