Biography

After completing my BA in Middle East and Asian Languages & Cultures at Columbia University in 2000, I took up a year-long Bosch Fellowship at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where I taught in both the departments of English and Applied Linguistics as well as advised students in the international office. I returned to New York and worked for five years at Columbia in project management and financial administration in the health services division before commencing postgraduate studies at Cambridge. I finished my PhD in German in 2012 and held two postdoctoral positions in Germany (Leibniz-Institute for European History) and in Canada (University of Calgary).I am currently the director of program and research support at Hearing Health Foundation, the largest private funder of hearing and balance research in the US. I continue to work as a translator from the German.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil, Modern & Medieval Languages 2007
Columbia University BA, Middle East & Asian Languages & Cultures 2000