Kurzbiografie
- Summer term 2013 Fellowship at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg, Centre of Excellence „Cultural Foundations of Integration“, Konstanz University
- since June 2010 Professor of Sociology (Focus: General Comparison of Societies), Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Spring term 2010 Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, Ghent University
- Fall term 2009 Lectureship at the Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne
- Spring term 2009 Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, Ghent University
- June 2007 – May 2010 Director of the research group "Idioms of Social Analysis" at the Center of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration", University of Konstanz
- Summer term 2003 Lectureship at Zurich University in the Faculty of History, Department of East European History
- February and October 2003 Research Fellowship at the Department of German Cultural Studies and the Einaudi Center for European Studies, Cornell University, USA
- January 2003 – December 2008 Head of the research project "Memory at the Stock Markets: Representations of the Past in the Mental Maps of Financial Market Professionals", Collaborative Research Centre 434 "Cultures of Memory" at Justus Liebig University Giessen
- September 1998 – August 2001 Various research stays in St. Petersburg, Russland
- November 1999 PhD in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, JLU Giessen ("summa cum laude")
- January 1997 – May 2007 Research and Teaching Associate, Department of Sociology, JLU Giessen
- December 1996 M.A. degree "with highest honors" in Sociology and Slavic Philology
- July 1994 – December 1996 Student Assistant at the Department of Slavic Philology
- October 1991 – December 1996 M.A. studies in Sociology, Slavic and English Philology at JLU Giessen, Kazan State University (Russia) and the University of Simferopol (Ukraine)