About Me
I grew up in Washington, D.C. – the third generation in my family to live in Tenleytown/AU Park. The seeds of my research interests were planted by my grandmother, Margaret Guenther. She received her Ph.D. in German Studies from Radcliffe College in 1958, writing a dissertation titled Thomas Mann as a Critic of German Literature.
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I have spent two years living in Hamburg, Germany: in 2016 as a visiting student at the Universität Hamburg and in 2021-22 for archival research.
If I am not working, I am mostly likely playing, watching, or reading about soccer—very likely about Manchester United, which I would follow home and away if it didn’t require transatlantic flights. I spent two years as a (mediocre) college soccer player at Wesleyan and spent several years as President of Princeton’s graduate student and faculty soccer club, Grad FC. Together with my friends and fellow presidents Jonas Jin and Alan Kaplan, we turned Grad FC into a club that drew 80 academics and community members twice a week, every week.
