Vita

Dr. Mark Keck-Szajbel

  • 2020-2022
    Lead academic advisor for the exhibition on Transnational Travel in the East Bloc at the Dokumentationszentrum Alltag der DDR (Eisenhüttenstadt)

  • 2016-2019
    Organizer with funding from the Wende Museum (Culver City) for ZIP Summer Schools in Frankfurt Oder, 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019

  • 2016-2017
    Grant from the Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung for the ZIP Summer School, Frankfurt Oder

  • 2015-2016                                                                                                                                                          
    Post-Doctoral Fellow for the History of Consumption, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
  • Since August 2012
    Academic Research Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Poland Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder

  • 2009-2013
    Ph.D. studies at the University of California, Berkeley, topic: The Borders of Friendship: Transnational Travel and Tourism in the East bloc, 1972-1989

  • 2012
    Research Fellow at the Institute for East European History and Geography, Tübingen

  • 2011 
    Guest lecturer and visiting scholar at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder

  • 2010-2011
    Research scholar based at Charles University, Prague

  • 2010
    Visiting scholar at the German Polish-Institute, Darmstadt

  • 2007-2011
    Graduate instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of History

  • 2008
    Visiting scholar at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder

  • 2007-2008
    Research assistant for Prof. Jason Wittenberg in the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Berkeley

  • 2006-2007
    Master studies in Late Modern European History at the University of California, Berkeley

  • 2007
    Curatorial assistant in German and Slavic Collections, Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley

  • 2003-2007
    Master studies at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Contemporary History and West Slavic Philology

  • 2004-2006
    Research assistant at the Institute for East European History and Geography, Tübingen

  • 2003-2004
    Socrates exchange student at the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań

  • 2001-2003  
    Bachelor studies at the University of Oregon in History and Germanic Languages and Literatures (magna cum laude)

  • 2001-2002
    Exchange student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

  • 1996-2000
    Undergraduate studies at Wichita State University, Newman University, Portland Community
    College and Portland State University

  • 1998
    Graduation from Wichita High School East

  • 1996-1997
    Exchange student in Winsen/Luhe

  • 1994-1996
    High school studies at the International Baccalaureate Wichita