His research focuses on the transnational networks created by German-speaking migrants and refugees. More broadly, his work examines how groups of people fashion collective narratives as nations, religions, and diasporas. His work has appeared in the journal German Studies Review and the edited volume Jenseits der “Volksgruppe”: Neue Perspektiven auf die Russlanddeutschen zwischen Russland, Deutschland und Amerika (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017).