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                | 2000-2006 | Studied Modern and
                Contemporary History, German language and
                literature studies (literary studies) and
                Business Sciences (Economics) at the Gerhard
                Mercator University GH of Duisburg respectively
                the University of Duisburg-Essen | 
            
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                | 2003-2006 | Cooperation in the research project "Industrial
                heritage, image and identity in the Ruhr area"
                ("Industriekultur, Image und Identität im
                Ruhrgebiet") under the supervision of Prof. Dr.
                Angela Schwarz | 
            
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                | 2006 | Master degree
                ("Magister Artium"); topic: "Enroute to the
                'starken Stück Deutschland' (slogan for the
                Ruhr area): image and identity formation in the
                Ruhr area in times of coal and steel crisis"
                (German title: "Auf dem Weg zum 'starken Stück
                Deutschland': Image- und Identitätsbildung im
                Ruhrgebiet in Zeiten von Kohle- und
                Stahlkrise") | 
            
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                | since August 2006 | Graduate assistant at
                the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at
                the University of Siegen (Prof. Dr. Angela
                Schwarz) | 
            
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                | 2013 | Doctoral thesis;
                topic: "Innenräume: Die Entdeckung der Fabrik
                als touristische Attraktion des deutschen
                Bürgertums im Übergang zur Moderne" ("The
                Factory as a Tourist Attraction of the German
                Bourgeoisie enroute to modernity") | 
            
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                | since 2014 | Postdoctoral research
                project, working title: "Der Stadt-Raum als
                diskursiv gestaltete Lebenswelt, 1960-1970"
                (The space of the city as discursively shaped
                lifeworld, 1960-1970) |