State and Nation in Eastern Europe
Culture and Society in Ukraine
Politics of Memory in Poland
Media and Society in Russia
Politics and the media in Russia
Nationalism in Eastern Europe
1999 Habilitation with a thesis on autobiographies in Russia at the University of Basel
1995 Visiting Fellow at the Slavic Department at Harvard University
1995 PhD with a thesis on Fedor Sologub at the University of Basel
1986-1991 German, Slavic, and Political Studies at the Universities of Zurich, Heidelberg, and Leningrad
Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Bochum, assistant professor at the University of Bern, assistant professor at the University of Basel, guest researcher at the University of Oslo, Visiting Fellow at Harvard University