Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Science - History of Education

Polytechnic secondary school with extended instruction in the Russian language

Apprenticeship as typist at Konsumgenossenschaft Stadt und Kreis Weimar

High School Diploma (Abitur) at a grammar school

Internship at Centrul scolar pentru handicapiti Ineu (orphanage in Romania)

Diploma in Rehabilitation Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
diploma thesis: „Sinti und Roma in der  deutschen Schule für Lernbehinderte“ (Sinti and Roma in the German school for children with learning difficulties);

Student Assistant in the project “Indoktrination in beiden deutschen Erziehungsstaaten“ (indoctrination in the East and West German education systems), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Heinz-Elmar Tenorth and Prof. Dr. Konrad Wünsche at Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Education Studies, Department of History of Education, funded by German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG)

Student Assistant at the Library for International Research in the History of Education (Research Library for the History of Education- BBF), Berlin

Caseworker in an assisted living facility for homeless people suffering from mental illnesses for VIA e.V. Berlin-Brandenburg

parental leave

Researcher in the project “Geschichte der ‘Schule der Freundschaft’ in Staßfurt (DDR)“ (history of the School of Friendship in Staßfurt, GDR), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Lutz Reuter and Prof. Dr. Annette Scheunpflug at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Faculty of Education, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)

Lecturer at the Department of History of Education, Institute of Education Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (winter semester)

Scholarship from Berliner Nachwuchsförderung (NaFöG)

since October 2005

(Jan. 2010- Aug. 2012 parental leave)

Research Assistant at Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Education Studies, Department of History of Education

Dr. phil.; dissertation title: “Bildwelten des Neuen mosambikanischen Menschen – fotografische Praxis im pädagogischen Raum der DDR. (Die Schule der Freundschaft‘1981-1988)“ (images of the New Mozambican, photography in pedagogy in the GDR based on material from the School of Friendship, Staßfurt),  (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pilarczyk, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heinz-Elmar Tenorth, Prof. Dr. Annette Scheunpflug); Institute of Education Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany