He received his PhD in Modern European history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2010. Before coming to UNC, he studied at the University of Munich and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at Columbia University, where he received his M.A. in 2003. His current book project “A German Special Path: Critical Social History as a Transatlantic Enterprise, 1945-1989,” analyzes the intellectual exchange between German and American historians from the end of World War II to the 1980s.