Free University Berlin, 1998; Dr. phil. Free University Berlin, 2003). Before moving to Emory, she was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, D. C. (2002-2005). She earned her PhD at Free University Berlin and has published The Struggle for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War with Cambridge University Press (2012) which had previously appeared in German with Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. Most recently, she was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Her latest book project focuses on the history of the inter-German border.