She completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and is presently revising a book manuscript with the title, “Dueling Students in a Slowly Democratizing Germany: Masculinity, Conflict, and Politics within German Student Life 1890 to 1914.” She is particularly interested the impact of religious and ethnic prejudices, the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth century, and sustainable practices in international, comparative perspective. She has been awarded fellowships by the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD, the Leo Baeck Institute, the FLAS Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Simon Dubnow Institute, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Indiana University. She joined the faculty at IU-South Bend in 2005.