Verena Baier

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Life Writing and Life Narrative

Memory Studies

Social Movements and Activism

Spatial Theory

Postcolonial Theory

U.S. Cultural History

Hemispheric American Studies

Dissertation project: Bookshelf Battlegrounds: Life Writing and the Left-Right Divide of 1980s US Nicaragua Activism

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Short CV

Since 2024: Instructor at the Chair of Media Studies, University of Regensburg

2019-2024: Assistant Manager of the Promotionskolleg der Philosophischen Fakult?ten der Universit?t Regensburg (PUR)

Since 2018: Doctoral candidate in American Studies, University of Regensburg (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat)

2022: Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), UC Berkeley; research stay at Hoover Institution, Stanford University

2019/20: Visiting scholar at the Institute of European Studies (IES), UC Berkeley

2017/18: Instructor (substitute position), American Studies, University of Regensburg

2017: State exam in English Studies, Spanish Studies, Educational Science, University of Regensburg

2017: B.A. in American Studies, University of Regensburg

2014/5: International student at Universidad de Sevilla

2012/13: International student at Augustana College, Illinois

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Fellowships and Grants

Research scholarship, Koordinationsstelle für Chancengleichheit der Universit?t Regensburg (2023)

Research scholarship, FAZIT-Stiftung (2023)

Full PhD scholarship, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw) (2018-2022)

Travel Grants for inter/national conference participation, Fakult?t für Sprach-, Literatur und Kulturwissenschaften (multiple times)

Graduate travel fellowship for archival research at the Bancroft Library and Archives, UC Berkeley and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, granted by the Bavarian American Academy Munich (2021)

Heidelberg Spring Academy, funded by Heidelberg Center for American Studies (2021)

International Summer Academy fellowship, granted by the Bavarian American Academy Munich (2019)

2019/2020 candidate of the Regensburg-Berkeley Doctoral Exchange Program, granted by the University of Regensburg (20