Talks and Media

  • August 2, 2021: "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood": "New Research," ANZASA Online, the blog of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association.

  • July 26, 2021: "One Year after George Floyd": podcast episode, "The Atlantic Hour", German-American Institute Saxony.

  • July 1, 2021: "#BlackLivesMatter: Historical Roots and Ruptures in the Black Freedom Struggle," Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Conference "Radical Possibilities."

  • June 21, 2021: "Towards an Intersectional History of White Supremacy and the Black Freedom Struggle." Vorlesungsreihe "Mapping the Margins Revisited: Intersectionality and American Studies," Universität Passau (online).

  • June 16, 2021: "Mothers, strategists, street fighters: the roles of whit women in white supremacy in the United States", Atlantic Academy (online, in German), you can register here.

  • June 10, 2021: "Reconstructing Biopolitics: Yellow Fever and the Gulf South," City Scripts virtual colloqium, University Duisburg-Essen (online).

  • June 4, 2021: "The 1867 Yellow Fever Epidemic in the Gulf South," 2-day, international workshop "Making Race and Health in Migration and Development" (co-organized with Dr. Nina Mackert, University of Leipzig; online).

  • May 25, 2021: Conversation "Racism in the United States - What Has Changed after George Floyd's Death?", SWR2 Forum.

  • May 3, 2021: "Black Lives Matter? The History of Racism in the United States." Bergische Volkshochschule, Wuppertal (online).

  • April 7, 2021: "History and the Headlines." Roundtable, British Association for American Studies (online).

  • November 27, 2020: Town Hall (digital)
    German Association for American Studies (DGfA)

  • November 19, 2020: Kölner Frauengeschichtsverein
    Talk: "Rosa Parks, #BlackLivesMatter und #MeToo". Lecture Series "Through their Eyes: Black Women's Narratives and their (Her)Stories."

  • November 13, 2020: Spiegel Online
    "Racism in the United States: The Girl and the Mob" (in German)

  • November 9, 2020: WDR5 Morgenecho (Radio), 6:45 AM
    Conversation about the 2020 Presidential Election Results

  • November 5, 2020: NDR Redezeit (Radio), 8:30 PM
    Conversation about the 2020 Presidential Election

  • November 4, 2020: Radio Eins (RBB), 12:10 PM
    Conversation about the 2020 Presidential Election

  • November 4, 2020: Schweizer Rundfunk (SRF4, Radio), 7:45 AM
    Conversation about the 2020 Presidential Election

  • October 10, 2020: Boston Globe
    "Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination highlights the rise of Catholics on the Supreme Court"