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DR. HEIDI J. S. TWOREK
Professor of International History and Public Policy; Canada Research Chair
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
heidi.tworek@ubc.ca
CURRENT POSITIONS
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Professor of International History and Public Policy, July 2024 –
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), 2021 –
Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, July 2022 –
Core Faculty Member, Centre for Computational Social Science, June 2023 –
Faculty Affiliate, Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Department, April 2022 –
Affiliate, Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, July 2015 –
Royal Society of Canada
Member, College of New Scholars, Royal Society of Canada, 2024 – 2031
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada
Senior Fellow and Monthly Columnist, December 2020 –
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington DC, USA
Non-Resident Fellow, July 2017 –
Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Ottawa, Canada
Non-Resident Fellow, December 2017 –
Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, UK
Co-Editor, April 2019 –
PRIOR POSITIONS
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy, July 2020 – June 2024
Assistant Professor of International History, July 2015 – June 2020
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Visiting Fellow, Joint Center for History and Economics, November 2015 – November 2019
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Lecturer on History and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, June 2012 – June 2015
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, Germany
Visiting Fellow and Group Co-Leader, April – July 2024.
Centre for Global History, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Visiting Fellow, May – June 2022
Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington DC, USA
Fellow, September 2016 – June 2017
Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
Visiting Summer Fellow, “Reluctant Internationalists” Group, May – June 2016
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Centre for Contemporary History), Potsdam, Germany
Leibniz Summer Fellowship, June – July 2014
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
PhD, History, May 2012
Dissertation: “Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905–1945.” Committee: Professors Charles S. Maier (advisor)
Awarded Herman E. Krooss Prize for best dissertation in business history
Cambridge University, Emmanuel College, UK
BA (Hons), Modern and Medieval Languages, June 2006
Part II (2005–2006): German (Starred First); Part I (2002–2004): German and Latin (First)
Freie Universität, Berlin, Socrates/Erasmus scholarship to study abroad, 2004–2005
BOOKS
News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019).
Reviews: Nature, Financial Times, New Rambler Review, Standpoint, and Washington Post.
Coverage in Tagesspiegel, Marginal Revolution, Vancouver Sun, IEEE Spectrum. Excerpted in Xing Magazin 43 (2019), pp. 27-28.
Scholarly roundtables: roundtable of three reviews and my response for Media History, roundtable of four reviews and my response for H-Diplo.
Scholarly reviews: American Historical Review, Annali Recensioni Online, Business History Review, German Studies Review, H-Soz-Kult, International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Modern History, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, Orbis, H-TGS.
Winner: Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library; the Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference; David Barclay Book Prize, German Studies Association.
Honorable Mention: Council for European Studies Book Award.
Finalist: Hagley Prize, Business History Conference; Tankard Book Award, Association for Journalists in Education and Mass Communication; Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association; Pinsky Givon Prize Family Prize for Non-Fiction, Western Canada Jewish Book Awards; Koffler Vine History Book Award.
EDITED VOLUMES
The Interwar World (40 chapters, London: Routledge, 2023). Co-edited with Andrew Denning. Coverage in Kansas University news and review on Toynbee Prize Foundation website.
Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business (37 chapters, London: Routledge, 2019). Co-edited with Teresa da Silva Lopes and Christina Lubinski.
Exorbitant Expectations: International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York: Routledge, 2018). Co-edited with Jonas Brendebach and Martin Herzer.
Reviews in Canadian Journal of Communications, Diplomatica, H-Diplo, and JHistory.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
“Postal Traffic in Global Perspective,” Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations (September 2024). Special issue of eight articles and a book forum in English and French co-edited with Léonard Laborie.
“Digitized Newspapers,” History Lab, American Historical Review (March 2024). Special collection of six short essays, edited with an introduction by me.
“The Politics of Sovereignty in Modern Germany,” Central European History 55.1 (April 2022). Special issue of five articles co-edited with Rüdiger Graf.
“Pandemics That Changed the World: Historical Reflections on COVID-19,” Journal of Global History 15.3 (November 2020). Special issue of eleven articles co-edited with Ewout Frankema.
“Imagined Use as a Category of Analysis: New Approaches to the History of Technology,” History and Technology: An International Journal 32.2 (August 2016). Special issue of five articles co-edited with Simone Müller.
“Communicating Global Capitalism,” Journal of Global History 10.2 (July 2015). Special issue of six articles co-edited with Simone Müller.
“The Governance of International Communications: Business, Politics, and Standard-Setting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” Journal of Policy History 27.3 (July 2015). Special issue of five articles and an afterword co-edited with Simone Müller.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The Aviation Capital of the World: How to Host an International Organization in Canada,” International History Review (R&R to be submitted).
“The Promises and Perils of Periodization: Lessons from the Global Interwar,” (with Andrew Denning), Past & Present (advance access online, February 2025).
“Development of a Novel Methodology for Ascertaining Scientific Opinion and Extent of Agreement,” (with Peter Vickers et al.) PLoS ONE 19.12 (December 2024), e0313541.
“Les trafics postaux dans une perspective d’histoire globale. Postaliser la mondialisation et mondialiser les réseaux postaux,” (with Léonard Laborie), Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations (September 2024), pp. 7-30.
“Digitized Newspapers and the Hidden Transformation of History,” History Lab, American Historical Review (March 2024), pp. 143-147.
“‘Frequently Asked Questions’ about Genetic Engineering in Farm Animals: A Frame Analysis,” (with Katie Koralesky, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, and Dan Weary), Food Ethics 9.7 (2024), 20 pp.
“Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool,” (with John Maxwell Hamilton), Political Communication 40.5 (2023), pp. 600-669. Featured in The Journalist’s Resource/Nieman Lab.
“Damage Control: How Candidates Interpret and Respond to Online Incivility,” (with Chris Tenove, Grace Lore, Trevor Deley, Jordan Buffie), Political Communication 40.3 (2023), pp. 283-303.
“Global Dis:connctions and Communications,” in “Forum — Global Dis:Connections,” edited by Roland Wenzlhuemer, Journal of Modern European History 21.2 (2023), pp. 13-15.
“Using Animal History to Inform Current Debates in Gene Editing Farm Animals: A Systematic Review,” (with Will Wright, Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, Dan Weary, and Katie Koralesky), Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (August 2022), 18 pp.
“Negotiating Sovereignty in German History: Historiographical Challenges,” (with Rüdiger Graf), Central European History 55.1 (April 2022), pp. 1-14.
“Novels and Newspapers in Piketty’s Capital and Ideology,” History Compass 20.4, e12720 (April 2022), 10 pp.
“A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference,” (with Neville Calleja et al.), Journal of Medical Internet Research: Infodemiology 1.1 (2021), 16 pp.
“Fighting Hate with Speech Law: Media and German Visions of Democracy,” Journal of Holocaust Research 35.2 (May 2021), pp. 106-122.
“Editors’ Note: Global History after the Great Divergence,” (with Ewout Frankema and Gagan Sood), Journal of Global History 16.1 (March 2021), pp. 1-3. (not peer-reviewed)
“Pandemics That Changed the World: Historical Reflections on Covid-19,” (with Ewout Frankema), Journal of Global History 15.3 (November 2020), pp. 333-335. (not peer-reviewed)
“Oligopolies of the Past? Habermas, Bourdieu, and Conceptual Approaches to News Agencies,” Journalism: Theory, Criticism, Practice 21.2 (November 2020), pp. 1825-1841.
“Online Disinformation and Harmful Speech: Dangers for Democratic Participation and Possible Policy Responses,” (co-authored with Chris Tenove), Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 13 (September 2019), pp. 215-232.
“Communicable Disease: Information, Health, and Globalization in the Interwar Period,” American Historical Review 124.3 (June 2019), pp. 813-842.
“The Death of News? The Problem of Paper in the Weimar Republic,” Central European History 50.3 (September 2017), pp. 328–346.
“The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study,” co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton, Journalism: Theory, Criticism, Practice 18.4 (April 2017), pp. 391–407.
“How Not to Build a World Wireless Network: German-British Rivalry and Visions of Global Communications in the Early Twentieth Century,” History and Technology 32.2 (August 2016), pp. 178–200.
“Introduction,” to “Imagined Use as a Category of Analysis: New Approaches to the History of Technology,” co-authored with Simone Müller, History and Technology 32.2 (August 2016), pp. 105–119.
“Changing the Rules of the Game: Strategic Institutionalization and Legacy Companies’ Resistance to New Media,” co-authored with Christopher Buschow, International Journal of Communication 10 (April 2016), pp. 2119–2139.
“Political and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals,” Business History Review 89.3 (Fall 2015), pp. 447–474.
“Introduction” to “The Governance of International Communications: Business, Politics, and Standard-Setting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” co-authored with Simone Müller, Journal of Policy History 27.3 (July 2015), pp. 405–415.
“The Savior of the Nation? Regulating Radio in the Interwar Period,” Journal of Policy History 27.3 (July 2015), pp. 465–492.
“Editorial — Communicating Global Capitalism,” co-authored with Simone Müller, Journal of Global History 10.2 (July 2015), pp. 203–211.
“The Telegraph and the Bank: On the Interdependence of Global Communications and Capitalism, 1866–1914,” co-authored with Simone Müller, Journal of Global History 10.2 (July 2015), pp. 259–283.
“Journalistic Statesmanship: Protecting the Press in Weimar Germany and Abroad,” German History 32.4 (Winter 2014), pp. 559–578.
“Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905–1945,” Enterprise & Society 15.4 (Winter 2014), pp. 672–686.
“The Creation of European News: News Agency Cooperation in Interwar Europe,” Journalism Studies 14.5 (October 2013), pp. 730–742.
“Peace through Truth? The Press and Moral Disarmament through the League of Nations,” Medien & Zeit 25.4 (December 2010), pp. 16–28.
“The Path to Freedom? Transocean and Wireless Telegraphy, 1914–1922,” Historical Social Research 35.1 (April 2010), pp. 209–233.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Press Agencies,” (with Lisa Ren), in Marcel Broersma, Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Mark O’Brien, and Frank Harbers (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Transnational Journalism History (forthcoming, Routledge, 2025).
“News Networks, 1920s – the Present” in Adrian Bingham (ed.), A Cultural History of Media in the Modern Age, 1920 to the Present (forthcoming, Bloomsbury, 2025).
“Afterword,” in Benno Nietzel and Norman Domeier (eds.), »Und morgen die ganze Welt«. Nationalsozialismus und internationale Öffentlichkeit (Campus, 2025), pp. 397-404.
“News Agencies: Instruments of Aggregation in a Disaggregating World,” in Sean Franzel, Ilinca Iurascu, Petra McGillen (eds.), Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century (deGruyter, 2024), pp. 117-123.
“Globalgeschichte und Unternehmensgeschichte. Forschung zwischen Wohlwollen und Desinteresse,” (with Simone Müller), in Nina Kleinöder et al. (eds.), Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgechichte (Ferdinand Schöningh, 2024), pp. 221-242.
“Secret Press Agents: When Journalists, Propagandists, and Spies Seem Indistinguishable,” in Hans-Jakob Ziemer (ed.), Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era (Routledge, 2022), pp. 116-136.
“Afterword: Competition during Covid-19,” in Daniela Russ and James Stafford (eds.), Competition in World Politics: Knowledge, Practices and Institutions (Bielefeld University Press, 2021), pp. 289-300. Reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
“The Impact of Communications in Global History,” in Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron (eds.), What in the World? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Global Social Change (Bristol University Press, 2021), pp. 195-210.
“Coded Internationalism and Telegraphic Language,” in Jessica Reinisch and David Brydan (eds.), The Reluctant Internationalists (Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 33-50.
“News, Propaganda, and Public Opinion from the Fin de Siècle to the Cold War,” (co-authored with Richard R. John), in Ann Blair et al. (eds.), Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton University Press, 2021), pp. 211-237. Featured in Laphams Quarterly.
“Policy Lessons from Five Historical Patterns in Information Manipulation,” W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston (eds.), The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 169-189. Chapter featured in reviews in Deccan Herald and Daily Kos. Reviewed in Journal of Communication Inquiry 46.2 (2022): 225-9 and Perspectives on Politics.
“Fake News: A Usable History,” (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton), in Joshua Grimm (ed.), Fake News! Misinformation in the Media (Louisiana State University Press, 2020), pp. 13-31.
“From Early Modern Moon Hoaxes to Nazi Propaganda: A Brief Anthology of Fake News,” (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton), in Joshua Grimm (ed.), Fake News! Misinformation in the Media (Louisiana State University Press, 2020), pp. 48-63.
“Communications and Technology Policy,” in Paula Baker and Donald T. Critchlow (eds.), Oxford Handbook of American Political History (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 408-426.
“A Union of Nations or Administrations? Voting Rights, Representation, and Sovereignty at the International Telecommunications Union in the 1930s,” in Gabriele Balbi and Andreas Fickers (eds.), History of the International Telecommunication Union: Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet (de Gruyter, 2020), pp. 243–264. Review in H-Soz-Kult.
“Digital History and Global Publics,” in Valeska Huber and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.), Global Publics: Their Powers and Limits, 1870-1990 (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 313–342. Chapter featured in review in Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists.
“Scoop: The Challenge of Foreign Correspondence,” (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton) in James E. Katz and Kate Mays (eds.), Social Media and Journalism’s Search for Truth (Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 133–150.
“Introduction to the Makers of Global Business,” (co-authored with Teresa da Silva Lopes and Christina Lubinski) in Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi Tworek (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business (Routledge, 2019), pp. 3-16.
“Global Communications,” (co-authored with Richard John) in Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi Tworek (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business (Routledge, 2019), pp. 315-331.
“Introduction,” (co-authored with Jonas Brendebach and Martin Herzer) in Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, and Heidi Tworek (eds.), Exorbitant Expectations: International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Routledge, 2018), pp. 1-16.
“Protecting News before the Internet,” in Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (eds.), Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 196–222.
ROUNDTABLES, ESSAYS, AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Roads to Engagement: A Roundtable Discussion with Jennifer Hart, Peter Norton, Anke Ortlepp, Heidi Tworek, and Roland Wenzlhuemer,” Journal of Transport History 45, no. 3 (2024), pp. 757–767.
“Rethinking the United States: What Was the ‘American Century’?”, in Jessica Reinisch and David Brydan (eds.), Historical Association – Exploring and Teaching the Twentieth Century (2019), pp. 62–65.
“Historical Roundtable: Legal and Historical Understandings of Privacy and Technology,” (with Erin Coyle, Amy Gajda, and Jeffery Smith), Historiography in Mass Communication 5, no. 3 (May 2019), pp. 17-27.
“Bild- und Filmamt,” International Encyclopedia of the First World War (February 2016).
“Wolff Telegraph Bureau,” International Encyclopedia of the First World War (November 2015).
“Der Weltverkehr und die Ausbreitung des Kapitalismus um 1900,” Themenportal Europäische Geschichte (October 2015).
“Wireless Telegraphy,” International Encyclopedia of the First World War (October 2014).
BOOK REVIEWS
Introduction to Roundtable XXVI-25 of Charles S. Maier, The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2023), H-Diplo (2025), pp. 2-5.
Review of Simon Potter et al., The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting (2022), Journal of Contemporary History 60.1 (2025), pp. 143-145.
Review of Larry Heinzerling and Randy Herschaft with Ann Cooper, Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany (2024), H-Soz-Kult (2024).
Review of Mary Sarotte, Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (2021), H-Diplo (2023), pp. 19-21.
Review of Jean-Michel Johnston, Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 (2021), Central European History 56.2 (2023), pp. 312-314.
Review of Rita Zajácz, Reluctant Power: Networks, Corporations, and the Struggle for Global Governance in the Early 20th Century (2019), American Historical Review 127.3 (2022), pp. 1551-1552.
Review of Dov H. Levin, Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions (2020), International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis 76.2 (2021), pp. 342-344.
Review of Andreas Fickers and Pascal Griset, Communicating Europe. Technologies, Information, Events (2019), H-Soz-Kult (June 2021).
Review of Erik Grimmer-Solem, Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919 (2019), Business History Review 94.3 (2020), pp. 655-658.
Review of Daniel Gorman, International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century (2017), H-Diplo (June 2018).
Review of Poul Duedahl (ed.), A History of UNESCO: Global Actions and Impact (2016), The English Historical Review (February 2018).
Review of Thomas Zimmer, Welt ohne Krankheit. Geschichte der internationalen Gesundheitspolitik 1940–1970 (2017), H-Soz-Kult (January 2018).
Review of James Lang, On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching (2008), Harvard University Bok Center Blog (September 2011).
Review of Steve J. Wurtzler, Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media (2009), JHistory (November 2010).
Review of Lutz Hachmeister, Nervöse Zone: Politik und Journalismus in der Berliner Republik (2007), H-German (May 2010).
POLICY REPORTS AND RESEARCH MEMOS
“Policy Consultation: Disinformation, Digital Space, and Democratic Processes,” Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference, Canada (October 2024), 3 pp.
“Harmful Hallucinations: Generative AI and Elections,” Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (August 2024).
“Mpox Communications: A Queer Pandemic,” (with Joseph Flores), Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, UBC (November 2023), 75 pp.
“Beyond Technology: The Role of Information Interference in Climate and Election Obstruction,” (with Sonja Solomun), Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy/Public Policy Forum (August 2023).
“Responding to Online Abuse: What We Heard from Health Communicators,” (with Chris Tenove, Sabah Haque, Hanna Hett, Oliver Zhang), Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, UBC (June 2023), 14 pages.
“Platform://Democracy – Perspectives on Platform Power, Public Values and the Potential of Social Media Councils: Research Report Americas,” (co-edited with Matthias C. Kettemann and Josefa Francke), Hamburg: Hans-Bredow-Institute (May 2023), 54 pp., doi: 10.21241/ssoar.86526.
“Overview Report: Online Hate in the Pandemic,” (with Chris Tenove) and “Case Study: Hate and Harassment Targeting Health Communicators,” (with Chris Tenove, with research assistance from Wilson Dargbeh, Hanna Hett, and Oliver Zhang), British Columbia Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (June 2022), 50 pp.
“From Flies to File Storage: Policy Issues in the Life-Cycle of Explanatory Journalism,” (with Sabrina Wilkinson, Elizabeth Dubois, Elizabeth Ren, Lui Xia Lee), Pol Comm Tech Lab, University of Ottawa (November 4, 2021), 30 pp. Media coverage in JSource.
“Impact of COVID-19 on Language and Literacy in Canada,” (with Janet Werker et al.), Royal Society of Canada (August 2021).
“Be Part of the Solution, Not Part of the Problem: A Social Media Code of Conduct for Canadian Politicians and Political Parties,” (with Chris Tenove and Jordan Buffie), Samara Centre for Democracy, Canada (May 2021), 29 pp.
“Partnership in Leadership: A New Beginning – Neue Impulse für die transatlantischen Beziehungen. Bericht der Task Force ‘Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen’,” (co-written with 22 others), Bonn University (December 2020), 52 pp.
“Social Media Councils and e-Courts in Canada: Research Memo,” Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression (December 2020), 5 pp.
“Processes, People, and Public Accountability: How to Understand and Address Harmful Communication Online,” (co-written with Chris Tenove), Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression (December 14, 2020), 33 pp.
“Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Online Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics,” (co-written with Chris Tenove), Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, UBC (October 29, 2020), 44 pp. Media coverage in CBC, Radio Canada, Globe & Mail, iPolitics, New Canadian Media, The Tyee, Yahoo News. Appearances on CBC.
“Democratic Health Communications during Covid-19: A Rapid Response,” (co-written with Ian Beacock and Eseohe Ojo), Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia (September 15, 2020), 112 pp. Featured in New York Times, Financial Times Alphaville, Abbotsford News, CBC, CNN, Vice, Georgia Straight, Globe & Mail, Macleans, Salt Lake Tribune, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, STAT news podcast, Vancouver Sun, WebMD. Multiple appearances on CBC, CJOB, CKNW, Global News BC, TVO.
Co-lead (with Peter Pomerantsev), Final Report Drafting Team, “Freedom and Accountability: A Transatlantic Framework for Moderating Speech Online. Final Report of the Transatlantic High-Level Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression” (June 2020).
“Dispute Resolution and Content Moderation: Fair, Accountable, Independent, Transparent, and Effective,” (lead author, co-authored with Ronan Ó Fathaigh, Lisanne Bruggemann, and Chris Tenove), Transatlantic Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression, Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania (January 14, 2020), 34 pp.
“An Analysis of Germany’s NetzDG Law,” (co-authored with Paddy Leerssen), Transatlantic Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression, Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania and Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam (April 2019).
“Poisoning Democracy: How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Online” (co-authored with Chris Tenove and Fenwick McKelvey), Public Policy Forum (November 2018), 34 pp.
“Responsible Reporting in an Age of Irresponsible Information,” Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (March 2018), 10 pp.
“Suspicious Minds: U.S.-German Relations in the Trump Era,” (co-authored with Frédéric Bozo et al.) Transatlantic Academy (May 2017), 34 pp.
POLICY EDITED COLLECTIONS
Co-editor (with Taylor Owen), “Platform Governance in Canada,” (17 essays), CSDI and Centre for Media, Democracy, and Technology (McGill University) (June 2023).
“Platform://Democracy – Perspectives on Platform Power, Public Values and the Potential of Social Media Councils: Research Report Americas,” (co-edited with Matthias C. Kettemann and Josefa Francke), Hamburg: Hans-Bredow-Institute (May 2023), 54 pp., doi: 10.21241/ssoar.86526.
Co-editor (with Nanjala Nyabola and Taylor Owen), “The Four Domains of Global Platform Governance: An Essay Series,” (16 essays), Centre for International Governance Innovation (June and July 2022). Winner, Gold Medal, Best Service Article for Consumers, Canadian Online Publishing Awards 2022.
POLICY PUBLICATIONS
“Much of the World Voted in 2024. But What Did We Learn?” (with Chris Tenove), Centre for International Governance Innovation (January 15, 2024).
“Digital Regulation May Have Bolstered European Elections — but How Would We Know?,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (June 28, 2024).
“What Lessons Did Canada Learn before Creating Its Online Harms Bill?,” (with Chris Tenove), TechPolicyPress (March 12, 2024).
“What Will the Series of Pivotal Elections in 2024 Mean for Democracy?,” (with Chris Tenove), Centre for International Governance Innovation (February 1, 2024). First in a series on elections and social media in 2024 co-organized with CIGI.
“Introduction,” (with Taylor Owen), CSDI and Centre for Media, Democracy, and Technology (McGill University) (June 2023).
“Public Values and Private Orders in Social Media Councils,” Introduction to Nine Articles in Matthias Kettemann, Heidi Tworek, and Josefa Francke (eds.), Platform://Democracy – Perspectives on Platform Power, Public Values and the Potential of Social Media Councils: Research Report Americas, Hamburg: Hans Bredow Institute (May 2023).
“As Digital Trade Expands, Data Governance Fragments,” (with Panthea Pourmalek and Yves Tiberghien), Centre for International Governance Innovation (February 9, 2023). Discussed in a Twitter Space on February 14, 2023.
“Can Elections Survive the Digital Age?” (with Panthea Pourmalek and Yves Tiberghien), Centre for International Governance Innovation (January 5, 2023).
“History Provides Insights into the Future of Cattle Breeding,” (with Will Wright, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk, Katherine E. Koralesky, and Daniel M. Weary), Milk Producer Magazine (Fall 2022), p. 19.
“Platform Transparency Requires Research — but Who Will Do It?” Centre for International Governance Innovation (September 22, 2022).
“Can We Move beyond Disinformation Studies?” Centre for International Governance Innovation (August 2, 2022). Translated into Portuguese here.
“Platform Governance Needs a Global Response,” (with Nanjala Nyabola and Taylor Owen), Centre for International Governance Innovation (June 13, 2022).
“One Way to Fight Disinformation is to Provide Something Better,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (June 6, 2022).
“Communications, Technology and Canadian Foreign Policy,” in Essay Series on “Situating Canada in a Changing World,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (April 25, 2022).
“Will War Propel or Delay the Global Push to Reform Social Media?,” (with Blayne Haggart et al.), Centre for International Governance Innovation (April 7, 2022).
“The Path Dependency of Infrastructure: A Commonly Neglected Aspect of Platform Governance,” Project for Peaceful Competition, King’s College London, and Centre for International Governance Innovation (February 14, 2022).
“Time for Transparency from Digital Platforms, But What Does That Really Mean?,” (with Alicia Wanless), Lawfare, Brookings Institution (January 20, 2022).
“As Omicron Surged, So Did Abuse of Health Communicators Online,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (January 12, 2022). Reprinted in Electronic Healthcare Law Review 12.3 (February 2023), pp. 29-32.
“History Explains Why Global Content Moderation Cannot Work,” TechStream, Brookings Institution (December 10, 2021).
“In Pandemic Communications, the Learning Curve is Strangely Absent,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (December 3, 2021).
“Could E-courts Help Fix Facebook’s Inadequate Oversight Board?” Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 29, 2021).
“Facebook’s America-Centrism is Now Plain for All to See,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 4, 2021).
“Stopping the Hostile Online Attacks Hurled at Candidates,” (with Chris Tenove), Policy Options/Options Politiques (September 13, 2021).
“Open Access to Data Is Critical in a Democracy,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (August 25, 2021).
“Disinformation: It’s History,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 14, 2021).
“Lessons from South Korea’s Approach to Tackling Disinformation,” (with Yoojung Lee), TechStream, Brookings Institution (July 12, 2021).
“Whose Democracy Counts When Global Social Media Rules Are Set?” Centre for International Governance Innovation (June 18, 2021).
“What Can Canadian Law Makers Draw from the New UK Online Safety Bill?” (with Suzie Dunn and Will Perrin), Centre for International Governance Innovation (May 20, 2021).
“Taiwan’s COVID-19 and Pandemic Experience: What are the Lessons for Canada?” Canadian Global Affairs Institute/Institut Canadien des Affaires Mondiales (April 13, 2021).
“Does Deplatforming Trump Set a New Precedent for Content Moderation?” (with Jameel Jaffer et al.), Centre for International Governance Innovation (January 18, 2021).
“The Dangerous Inconsistencies of Digital Platform Policies,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (January 13, 2021).
“Beyond Briefings: How Canadian Officials Can Communicate More Effectively during the Covid-19 Endgame,” (co-written with Ian Beacock), First Policy Response (January 13, 2021).
“The Promise and Peril of Anti-Pandemic Technology,” TechStream, Brookings Institution (December 10, 2020).
“When Democracy meets Efficiency: How Communications Can End the Pandemic,” Institute Montaigne (November 5, 2020). Translated into French.
“Is News Property? How Digital Platforms are Resurrecting a Centuries-Old Question,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 30, 2020).
“How a Public Health Approach Could Help to Curb the Infodemic,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 15, 2020).
“Lessons Learned from Taiwan and South Korea’s Tech-Enabled Covid Communications,” TechStream, Brookings Institution (October 6, 2020).
“Should Big Tech be Setting the Terms of Political Speech?” (with Samantha Bradshaw et al.) Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 5, 2020).
“Covid-19 Has Democratic Lessons to Teach. Has Angela Merkel Helped Germany to Learn Them?” (with Ian Beacock and Sudha David-Wilp), Transatlantic Take, German Marshall Fund of the United States (October 2, 2020).
“Why Doesn’t TikTok Get Policy Makers’ Attention?” Centre for International Governance Innovation (June 25, 2020).
“Paris Call Community for Countering Election Interference: What Democracies Can Learn from the Government of Canada,” (co-written with David Salvo), Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (May 26, 2020).
“Should There Be a Public Health Exemption for Section 230?” TechStream, Brookings Institution (May 18, 2020).
“Platforms Adapted Quickly during the Pandemic – Can They Keep It Up?” Centre for International Governance Innovation (May 14, 2020). Translated into French for Institut Montaigne (June 9, 2020).
“Why the U.S. Needs a Pandemic Communications Unit,” TechStream, Brookings Institution (April 29, 2020).
“How to Use Communications as a Medical Intervention,” German Marshall Fund of the United States (April 1, 2020).
“A New Blueprint for Platform Governance,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (February 24, 2020).
“How Transparency Reporting Could Incentivize Irresponsible Content Moderation,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (December 10, 2019).
“How Platforms Could Benefit from the Precautionary Principle,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (November 19, 2019).
“What Does Twitter's Ban on Political Ads Mean for Platform Governance?” (with Joan Donovan et al.), Centre for International Governance Innovation (November 5, 2019).
“Social Media Councils,” CIGI Series on Platform Governance, Centre for International Governance Innovation (October 2019).
“Disinformation and Democracy in Historical Perspective,” NATO Association of Canada/Association Canadienne pour L’OTAN (Fall 2019), pp. 15-18.
“Social Media Platforms and the Upside of Ignorance,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (September 2019).
“Looking to History for Lessons on Platform Governance,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 2019).
“Without Improved Transparency, Platform Regulation Is a Pipe Dream,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 2019).
“Internet Governance Can’t Be Divorced from Infrastructure Governance,” Centre for International Governance Innovation (July 2019). Translated into French and published by Institut Montaigne (December 2019).
“The Next North American Election: How Canada is Protecting Itself and What Can Still be Done,” (co-authored with David Salvo), Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States (March 2019).
“How a Standards Council Could Help Curb Harmful Online Content,” (co-authored with Fenwick McKelvey and Chris Tenove), Policy Options (February 2019).
“What the History of Radio Tells Us about Technology and Democracy,” Chatham House (October 2018).
“Communications and the Integrity of Elections,” The Global Exchange (September 2018).
“How History Helps Us to Uncover the Real Successes of Middle Power Internationalism,” Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa (July 2018).
“Gemeinsam mit den Guten. Wie ein EU-Handelsabkommen mit Kanada zum Wertepaket wurde,” Internationale Politik (May/June 2017): 53-57.
“Kommunikation in der Ära von Fake News,” Zukunftsinstitut Politics & PR 4.0 (April 2017).
“Why Germany Might Take a Maple Leaf out of Canada’s Book,” Transatlantic Academy (March 10, 2017).
“Approaching Trump,” (with Sir Michael Leigh, Stefan Fröhlich, and Joshua Walker), German Marshall Fund (March 8, 2017).
“Political Communications in the ‘Fake News’ Era: Six Lessons for Europe,” Transatlantic Academy Policy Brief (February 13, 2017).
“The European Union Clashes with Google over Copyright,” German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Take (October 11, 2016).
DIGITAL PROJECTS
Co-creator (with Natasha Lee and Will Wright), Holsteins Everywhere: A Bovine History, August 2022.
Co-ordinator, United Nations History Project (www.unhistoryproject.org), December 2010 – present.
Project manager for leading scholarly website on UN history. Supervised ten graduate and undergraduate researchers. Awarded grants from United Nations Foundation for the site, its Facebook and Twitter.
Editor, “Image of the Month.” October 2016 – 2018.
Solicit, edit, and publish essays from scholars on images related to the history of international organizations.
Manager, UN70 Twitter Project (www.twitter.com/UN_History), April 2015 – 2018.
Manage and publicize tweets tracing the foundation of the United Nations in real time, seventy years later.
Blogger, United Nations Foundation, July – October 2015.
Contributed regular blog posts on the history of the foundation of the United Nations.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Co-applicant, Canada Biomedical Research Fund and Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund
(CAD $13,500,000) 2024
PI, Digital Citizens Contribution Program, Heritage Ministry (CAD $129,375) 2024
Co-applicant, SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (CAD $23,723) 2024
PI, Health after 2020, UBC Health (CAD $10,000) 2023
PI, SSHRC Insight Grant (CAD $282,525) 2023
Commission, Global Affairs Canada (CAD $8,000) 2023
Co-applicant, British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Grant (£179,396) 2023
PI, Digital Citizens Initiative, Heritage Ministry (Canada) (CAD $99,500) 2023
Gold Medal, Best Service Article for Consumers, Canadian Online Publishing Awards 2022
Co-PI, Residency Group, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bielefeld University (€370,000) 2022
Public History Initiative, UBC History Department (CAD $4,992) 2022
Co-applicant, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CAD $100,000) 2022
Co-applicant, SSHRC Insight Grant (CAD $258,643) 2022
Co-applicant, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (CAD $197,891) 2022
New Frontiers in Research Fund, SSHRC (CAD $134,000) 2022
Commission, British Columbia Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (CAD $23,000) 2022
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund (CAD $80,000) 2022
Canada Foundation for Innovation John Evans Leaders Fund (CFI-JELF, CAD $120,000) 2021
Canada Research Chair, Tier II (CAD $600,000) 2021
Public History Initiative, UBC History Department (CAD $5,000) 2021
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (CAD $24,974) 2021
SSHRC Arts Explore Grant (CAD $4,000) 2021
Historical Innovation in Explanatory Journalism, SSHRC PG subgrant (CAD $17,500) 2021
Arts Undergraduate Research Award, UBC Faculty of Arts (CAD $3,000) 2021
Covid-19 Solutions, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC (CAD $19,500) 2020
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (CAD $24,940) 2020
Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters, Language Science Initiative, UBC (CAD $8,000) 2020
Co-applicant, COVID-19 Working Group, Peter Wall Institute, UBC (CAD $7,500) 2020
SSHRC Exchange: Arts Workshop and Visiting Speakers (CAD $2,000) 2020
Co-applicant, Genomics in Society Interdisciplinary Research Team (CAD $1.4 million) 2020
Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library (GBP 5,000) 2020
Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference and Sloan Foundation (USD $5,000) 2019
Public History Initiative, UBC History Department (CAD $5,000) 2019
Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge Grant (CAD $46,150) 2019
Co-applicant, SSHRC Partnership Grant (CAD $2.5 million) 2019
Public History Initiative, UBC History Department (CAD $3,000) 2019
Fieldwork Project Grant/Public History Initiative, UBC History Department (CAD $4,500) 2019
Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Canada (x2) (CAD $12,000) 2019
Arts Undergraduate Research Award, UBC Faculty of Arts (CAD $3,000) 2019
Public History Initiative, UBC History Department (CAD $3,000) 2018
Fieldwork Project Grant, UBC History Department (CAD $4,500) 2018
German Historical Institute Conference Organization Grant ($13,000) 2018
Bridge Funding, Vice President Research Office and History Dept, UBC (CAD $4,000) 2018
Co-applicant, SSHRC Connection Grant (CAD $38,567) 2018
Co-applicant, SSHRC Insight Development Grant (CAD $24,800) 2018
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (CAD $24,954) 2018
Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Canada (x2) (CAD $12,000) 2018
History Department Fieldwork Project Grant, UBC (CAD $4,878) 2017 – 2018
Faculty of Arts International Travel Grant, UBC (CAD $2,000) 2017
Bridge Funding, Vice President Research Office and History Dept, UBC (CAD $4,680) 2017
History Department Summer Fieldwork Project Grants (x2), UBC (CAD $9,477) 2017
Transatlantic Academy Fellowship, German Marshall Fund, Washington DC ($70,000) 2016 – 2017
Visiting Fellowship, “Reluctant Internationalists,” Birkbeck, University of London ($1,300) 2016
Mitacs Globalink Research Award, Canada (CAD $5,000) 2016
Faculty of Arts Research Grant, University of British Columbia (CAD $4,000) 2016
History Department Summer Fieldwork Project Grant, UBC (CAD $5,000) 2016
SSHRC Connection Grant (CAD $23,736) 2016
Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, “History Lab,” UBC (CAD $50,000) 2016
Faculty of Arts International Travel Grant, University of British Columbia (CAD $2,000) 2015
Hampton Fund New Faculty Research Grant, UBC (CAD $10,000) 2015
The Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising, Harvard University (nominated) 2015
John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling, Harvard (nominated) 2015
Leibniz Summer Fellowship, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam ($6,700) 2014
Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History ($500) 2014
United Nations Foundation Operational Support Grants (awarded four times at $20,000) 2012 – 2016
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (awarded twelve times) 2008 – 2015
German Historical Institute Conference Grant for German Studies Association ($3,000) 2013
Harvard University Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined) 2012 – 2013
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Travel Grant to Business History Conference ($1,000) 2012
Bok Center Certificate of Achievement in the Practice of Teaching in Higher Education 2012
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Travel Grant ($1,500) 2011
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Research Grant, Harvard University ($3,000) 2011
History Department Summer Grant, Harvard University ($4,000 each) 2007–08, 2011
Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship (honorary recipient) 2009 – 2010
Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship ($30,000) 2009 – 2010
DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship ($12,500) 2009 – 2010
James Souverine Gallo ‘27 Memorial Scholarship, Harvard University ($500) 2008 – 2009
Center for European Studies Summer Travel Grant, Harvard University ($6,000) 2008
Herchel Smith Travel Grant, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University ($10,000) 2006 – 2009
Kurt Hahn University Prize (Highest mark in German at Cambridge University) 2004, 2006
The Sands Senior Scholarship, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University 2003, 2004
Maybe we could include some of the logos of funders on the site?
MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
“Connecting Postal Histories with the Future,” (interview of me and Léonard Laborie by Makiko Hayashi) in Union Postale (Autumn/Winter 2024), pp. 30-32.
Regular interviews posted on the Toynbee Prize Foundation, for example with Emma Rothschild (August 2024) and Ayşe Zarakol (November 2023).
“The Interwar World: Where, When, and How?,” (interview of me and Andrew Denning by Poorvi Bellur), Toynbee Prize Foundation (May 3, 2024).
“Animal History and Animal Welfare Science: Multidisciplinary Work and Mutual Learning,” (with Will Wright, Nina von Keyserlingk, Katie Koralesky, and Dan Weary), Network in Canadian History & Environment/Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l’environnement (October 20, 2022).
“Living in an Interwar World: Communicable Disease and Epidemic Information,” Long Run Health Matters (October 9, 2022).
“Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Heidi Tworek,” Public Humanities Hub, UBC (July 19, 2022).
“The Online Abuse and Harassment of Women in Politics Must Stop,” Globe & Mail, (July 4, 2022), A6.
‘The Use and Abuse of History,” Körber History Forum in “e-Paper: A New Global Order? History and Power Politics,” (July 2022), pp. 24-25.
“The Russian Invasion Shows How Digital Technologies Have Become Involved in All Aspects of War,” (with Katharina Niemeyer, Dominique Trudel, Marina Silina, and Svitlana Matviyenko), The Conversation (March 28, 2022).
“History is a Good Antidote to Disinformation about Ukraine,” multiple Postmedia outlets, including Ottawa Citizen, Cochrane Times Post, and Sault this Week plus Centre for International Governance Innovation (March 8, 2022).
“Canadian Politicians Were Warned in 2019 about Extremist Fundraising Online,” Toronto Star (February 8, 2022). Longer version published at Centre for International Governance Innovation (February 9, 2022).
“A Chance for Democratic Renewal,” in “Is the Media Doomed?,” Politico Magazine (January 21, 2022).
“A Real History of Fake News,” (with John Maxwell Hamilton), American Purpose (August 23, 2021).
“Stories, Statistics, and Authenticity in Health Communications,” Beyond Disinformation series, Social Sciences Research Council (May 25, 2021).
“The Cyberflâneur,” The Syllabus, curated commentary on ten pieces (May 22, 2021).
“Why We Need to Change the Narrative on Outdoor Transmission,” (with Zain Chagla and Sumon Chakrabarti), Toronto Star (April 12, 2021).
“Why Disease Names Matter,” Globe & Mail (March 24, 2021). Also published by Royal Society of Canada in the Covid-19 Series, Publication 98.
“Simply Talking about the Pandemic the Right Way Can Help Rebuild American Democracy,” (with Ian Beacock), The New Republic (December 24, 2020).
“A Year of News Mocktails,” Predictions for 2021, Nieman Lab (December 2020).
“What We Can Learn from Covid Communications in Other Countries,” (with Ian Beacock and Eseohe Ojo), Policy Options (November 5, 2020).
“Ontario’s Covid-19 Messaging Needs a Reset: Here is What to Do,” (with Ian Beacock) Ottawa Citizen (October 20, 2020).
“B.C. Shouldn’t Be Afraid of a Pandemic Election – It Could Strengthen Our Democracy,” (with Ian Beacock) The Province (September 29, 2020).
“Leaving Big Tech to Govern Themselves Doesn’t Work. They’re Getting Even Worse,” The Independent (August 7, 2020).
“Getting Your Book Read When You’re a Humanities Scholar,” (interview of me by Letitia Henville), University Affairs (May 15, 2020).
“Pandemics and History – a Roundtable on COVID-19 and Its Historical Connections (with John Christopoulos, Robert Brain, and Timothy Brook),” UBC History Department (May 3, 2020).
“When a Virus is the Cause, Racism is Often the Symptom: Q&A with Heidi Tworek,” UBC News (February 25, 2020). Reprinted in Richmond News.
“The Year of Positive Pushback,” Predictions for 2020, Nieman Lab (January 2, 2020).
“Canada Needs a Social Media Council to Help Solve Complex Problems with Online Content Moderation,” Re$earch Money (December 11, 2019).
“News from Germany,” TRAFO: Blog for Transregional Research (August 14, 2019).
“Falsche Nachrichten hat es immer gegeben: Ein Interview zwischen Heidi Tworek und Georg Ismar,” Der Tagesspiegel (August 3, 2019).
“Government-Imposed Internet Blackouts Are A Power Move to Suppress Dissent,” The Conversation (June 24, 2019).
“Author Q&A: Informational Wars,” Vancouver Sun (June 22, 2019).
“A Lesson from 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media,” The Atlantic (May 26, 2019).
“Information Warfare is Here to Stay: States Have Always Fought for the Means of Communication,” Foreign Affairs (April 2019).
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,” The Page 99 Test (April 2019).
“Informationskriege,” Internationale Politik (March/April 2019), pp. 122-129.
“We Can’t Rely Solely on Silicon Valley to Tackle Online Hatred,” (co-authored with Chris Tenove and Fenwick McKelvey), Globe & Mail (November 12, 2018).
“Quietly, One of Trump’s Tariffs Threatens Democracy,” Washington Post (September 11, 2018).
“L’âge d’or des médias: une exception historique?,” Ina Global (September 4, 2018).
“Als ob Flüchtlinge Touristen wären,” Süddeutsche Zeitung (June 20, 2018), p. 2.
“Why the ‘Golden Age’ of Newspapers was the Exception, Not the Rule,” (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton), Nieman Lab (May 2, 2018).
“What Europe Can Teach Canada about Protecting Democracy,” (co-authored with Chris Tenove), The Conversation (April 5, 2018).
“Tweets are the new Vox Populi,” Columbia Journalism Review (March 27, 2018).
“Is Germany’s Foreign Minister Having a Chrystia Freeland Moment?” The Conversation (January 8, 2018).
“Nicht bei der Verteidigung sparen!” (co-authored with Niklas Helwig) ZEIT Online (October 30, 2017).
“Foreign Propaganda is a Problem Again, But Maybe a Smaller One than We Think,” Made by History, Washington Post (October 3, 2017).
“Die Probleme mit Freihandelsabkommen,” Der Tagesspiegel (August 7, 2017), p. 6. Appeared online as “Nichts aus den Fehlern gelernt,” Der Tagesspiegel (August 30, 2017).
“Privacy Shapes Our News,” Goethe Institute, Washington DC (June 22, 2017).
“How to Make Facts Matter Again,” OECD Yearbook 2017 (June 2017).
“How Germany is Tackling Hate Speech,” Foreign Affairs (May 16, 2017).
“Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the New Old Fear of Manipulating the Masses,” Nieman Lab (May 15, 2017).
“Microsoft is Right: We Need a Digital Geneva Convention,” Wired (May 9, 2017).
“How to Spend It: Three Simple Suggestions to Increase German Military Spending,” War on the Rocks (May 2, 2017).
“Was Deutschland von Kanada lernen kann: Die Trump-Diplomatie,” Der Tagesspiegel (March 9, 2017).
“What Makes Health Special?” Invited Blog Post for Reluctant Internationalists, Birkbeck, University of London (December 19, 2016).
“Why the History of News Explains its Future,” (co-authored with John Maxwell Hamilton) The Conversation (May 17, 2016).
Contributor, “What Can One Photo Tell Us about the Media and 2016?,” Politico Magazine (May/June 2016).
“Lab Partners: Experimenting with Active Learning,” (co-authored with Gabriel Pizzorno) Perspectives on History. The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (April 2016), pp. 23-24.
“From World Health to World Heritage: Seventy Years of the United Nations,” UN Chronicle 52 (September 2015).
“Das Märchen vom Schicksalstag,” (co-authored with Thomas Weber) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (November 8, 2014).
“History Lessons: Why Germany’s ‘Google Tax’ Won’t Work,” (co-authored with Christopher Buschow) Nieman Reports (October 23, 2014).
“Does England Have the Solution to the Grade-Inflation Problem?” The Atlantic (October 20, 2014).
“Wettbewerbsvorteile durch Gesetzgebung? Debatten zum Nachrichtenschutz im Wandel der Zeit,” (co-authored with Christopher Buschow) Der Digitale Wandel - Magazin für Internet und Gesellschaft 1.2 (August 2014), pp. 14–16.
“LSR: Wiederholt sich die Geschichte?” (co-authored with Christopher Buschow) Vocer, iRights, and Golem (July 2014).
“Writing a Student Evaluation Can Be Like Trolling the Internet: How a Long-Despised University Tradition Can Be a Chance to Teach Civility,” The Atlantic (May 21, 2014).
“The Real Reason the Humanities are ‘in Crisis’,” The Atlantic (December 18, 2013).
Interviews and blog posts about the United Nations History Project website on US History Scene, Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Russian International Affairs Council, UN Dispatch, and the United Nations Foundation blog.
Interviews, quotes, and background discussions in over 130 news articles: Abbotsford News, ABC News, Black Press Media, Canadian Press, CBC, Castanet, Chatelaine, CNN, Committee to Protect Journalists, CTV, Der Tagesspiegel, Deutsche Welle, E&T Magazine (Engineering & Technology Magazine), El País, El Universal, Exberliner, FDANews, Financial Times, Georgia Straight, Globe & Mail, Influence, Kelowna Capital News, La Tercera, Maclean’s, Metro News Vancouver, Ming Pao, Mongabay, Morning Consult, National Journal Research, National Observer (Canada), National Geographic, National Post, Nature, News 1130, Nieman Reports, NPR’s On the Media, PassBlue, Politico, Province, Reuters, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Squamish Chief, Star Vancouver, STAT News, Talking Points Memo, The New Republic, The Spinoff, The Telegraph, The Tyee, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Veja, Vice, Voice of America, WebMD.
Work featured by CBC, CNN, CTV, Financial Times, New York Times, Québec Science, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, The Ubyssey.
This part is probably mainly useful for deciding which logos of publications to include!
TV, RADIO, AND PODCASTS
“Non-Aligned News: A Journalistic Experiment to Decolonize Global News,” CBC Ideas (December 9, 2024).
“A Look at News, Memes, and Wireless Tech from More than 100 Years Ago (Heidi Tworek Calls from Germany),” Policy Prompt, Centre for International Governance Innovation (November 26, 2024).
“Tech Bros and Diplomacy,” The Foreign Desk, Monocle Radio (August 17, 2024).
“Online Harms Bill,” Global National (February 28, 2024).
“Propaganda for Breakfast,” LBI Presents, Leo Baeck Institute (February 2024).
Digital History series, European Review of History podcast (July 4, 2023).
Also a place to get some logos mainly.
“History for Tomorrow: Misinformation and ‘Fake News’ in Historical Perspective,” Nationwide 90FM, Kingston, Jamaica (April 15, 2023).
“Canada Bans TikTok on Government-Issued Devices,” The National, CBC News (February 27, 2023).
“Biden’s Covid Declaration,” The Readout Loud, STAT News (September 22, 2022).
“Harassment of Politicians,” CBC Calgary (August 29, 2022) and Shaye Ganam Show on 630 CHED & 770 CHQR, Alberta (August 30, 2022).
“The Online Abuse and Harassment of Women in Politics,” Shaye Ganam Show on 630 CHED & 770 CHQR, Alberta (July 5, 2022).
“Writing for Wikipedia as a Learning Tool,” The Art & Science of Learning (May 5, 2022).
“Online Harms: Regulation?,” Public Policy Forum (April 18, 2022).
“B.C. COVID-19 Review Won’t Look at Policy, Dr. Henry’s Decisions,” CityNews Vancouver (March 18, 2022).
“Moves to Ban Kremlin Propaganda Outlets Evoke WWII Anti-Nazi Efforts” (with Emerson Brooking), Tech Policy Press and Just Security (March 5, 2022).
“Mis- and Disinformation during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine,” CBC Early Edition, Vancouver (February 25, 2022) and CBC Kelowna and CBC Daybreak North (February 28, 2022).
“BC Covid Communications,” CBC Vancouver (January 23, 2022) and CBC Victoria (January 24, 2022).
“BC Covid Communications Confusion,” CKNW with Jill Bennett (January 20, 2022).
“Covid Vaccines and Communications,” BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC (January 13, 2022).
“Bedrohte Wissenschaft: Forschung im Visier der Corona-Extremisten,” Österreichischer Rundfunk (ÖRF, Austrian National Public Radio) (January 11, 2022).
“BC Covid Communications,” CBC Daybreak South (January 4, 2022).
“Covid Communications,” Early Edition, CBC Vancouver (December 23, 2021).
“Covid Protests,” CTV Vancouver (December 13, 2021).
“Vaccine Mandates,” BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC (October 22, 2021).
“Vaccine Communications and Children,” CBC syndication (5 CBC stations: Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George) (October 12, 2021).
“First Doses Slowly Climbing, But How to Reach Remaining Unvaccinated? Experts Weigh in,” CTV News Vancouver (September 15, 2021).
“Communications, Vaccine Mandates, and Hesitancy,” Early Edition, CBC Vancouver (September 1, 2021).
“Why Female Politicians in Canada Are Receiving More Toxicity on Twitter,” Global News (August 29, 2021).
“The Meaning of Comirnaty,” Radio Day 6, CBC (August 28, 2021).
“Facebook and the 2021 Canadian Election,” CBC syndication (9 CBC stations: Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Saskatchewan, Sudbury/Thunder Bay, Vancouver, Winnipeg) (August 2021).
“The Lawfare Podcast: With Disinformation, The Past Isn’t Past,” Arbiters of Truth, Brookings Institution (August 12, 2021).
“Vaccine Hesitancy and Communications,” Global News BC (July 29, 2021).
“Vaccine Hesitancy and Communications,” CKNW (July 28, 2021).
“Vaccine Hesitancy Communications,” Global News BC (July 28, 2021).
“Vaccine Hesitancy between Family Members,” Early Edition with Stephen Quinn, CBC Vancouver (July 28, 2021).
“Vaccine Hesitancy,” The National, CBC (July 26, 2021).
“Health Communications and Trust,” CBC Daybreak South (June 10, 2021).
“Health Communications during Covid-19,” (with Ian Beacock and Eseohe Ojo), Interrobang: A Writing Podcast, UBC (June 9, 2021).
“Vaccine Hesitancy and Communications,” Spice Radio (June 4, 2021).
“Can Better Communications Curb Vaccine Hesitancy?” Capital Daily Podcast (May 18, 2021).
“Growing Demand for Vaccines,” CTV National News (May 12, 2021).
“Communicating around Vaccines,” (with Navdeep Grewal), CBC Early Edition, Vancouver (May 5, 2021).
“Vaccine Communications,” The Daily Edition with Matt Gurney, Sirius XM 167 Canada Talks (May 3, 2021).
“Vaccine Registration Mix-Up,” CTV Vancouver News at Six (May 2, 2021).
“A Rocky Rollout,” CTV National News (May 1, 2021).
“Importance of Remaining Vigilant after First Vaccine Shot,” CTV National News (April 28, 2021).
“Doug Ford Apologizes,” #onpoli Podcast, TVO (April 27, 2021).
“Covid-19 and Social Media Communication,” CityNews Vancouver (April 7, 2021).
“Public Health Messaging and Behaviour,” CBC News Network with Natasha Fatah (April 4, 2021).
“Covid Communications and New Restrictions in BC,” Jill Bennet Show, CKNW (March 30, 2021).
“Threats against Bonnie Henry,” Lead item on CBC Vancouver News at 6 (February 25, 2021).
“Covid-19 and Pandemics in History,” Chris Walker Show, CBC Kelowna (February 23, 2021).
“BC Health Communications,” Lynda Steele Show, CKNW (February 22, 2021).
“BC Health Communications and ScienceUpFirst,” All Points West, Radio West, and On the Coast, CBC (January 26, 2021).
“BC Health Communications,” Jill Bennet Show, CKNW (January 26, 2021).
“The Challenges of Internet Regulation,” The Law Bytes Podcast with Michael Geist (January 25, 2021).
“Covid-19 Communications One Year On,” Lynda Steele Show, CKNW (January 18, 2021).
“Covid-19 Communications,” (with Kulpreet Singh), CBC Vancouver, On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko (January 8, 2021).
“Covid-19 Restrictions and Communications,” BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC (January 7, 2021).
“The Distant Prayers Podcast,” (with Eseohe Ojo, Yoojung Lee et al.), Distant Prayers Research Project at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC (December 21, 2020).
“Covid-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy,” Spice Radio (December 16, 2020).
“Vaccines and Disinformation,” CTV Montreal (December 13, 2020).
“Vaccines and Disinformation,” CBC News Network (December 12, 2020).
“What Leaders Say in a Pandemic: What Works, What Doesn’t,” Ontario Today with Rita Celli, CBC (December 2, 2020).
“Science, Politics, and the Pandemic,” (with Stephen Meek and Jim Talbot), The Current with Matt Galloway, CBC (December 2, 2020). CBC write-up here.
“Covid-19 Communications and Resilience,” BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC (December 1, 2020).
“Health Communications in BC,” The Lynda Steele Show, CKNW (November 30, 2020).
“Pandemic Communications,” CBC New Brunswick (November 23, 2020).
“Departures Podcast with Heidi Tworek,” Amsterdam & Partners LLP (November 13, 2020).
“Confusion over BC Covid Guidelines,” CBC All Points West, On the Coast, Radio West, CBC Vancouver Evening News, and CBC (November 9, 2020).
“New Covid Guidelines in BC,” Global News BC (November 8, 2020).
“Online Harassment and Politics,” CBC All Points West, On the Coast, and Radio West (October 29, 2020).
“Pandemic Communications: In Need of a Reset,” (with Colin Furness, Amanda Galbraith, Matt Gurney), The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TV Ontario (October 28, 2020).
“Covid-19 Communications in Ontario,” (with Ian Beacock), CBC Ottawa (October 21, 2020).
“Facebook and Election Integrity in British Columbia,” C-FAX (October 20, 2020).
“Election Special,” (with Dipayan Ghosh) Scientific Sense (October 17, 2020).
“Women and Politics in BC,” C-FAX (October 13, 2020).
“Ontario’s Covid Communications,” #onpoli Podcast, TVO (September 29, 2020).
“Comparing BC’s Covid-19 Communications,” Global News BC (September 20 2020).
“Covid-19 Communications in Democracies,” CJOB with Geoff Currier (September 18, 2020).
“Pandemic PR,” The Readout LOUD, STAT News (September 17, 2020).
“Covid-19 Communications around the World,” CKNW with Jill Bennet (September 15, 2020).
“Conspiracy Theories in the Past and Coronavirus,” CBC Vancouver, On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko (July 31, 2020).
“How to Talk to Young People about Coronavirus,” Global BC News with Sonia Deol (July 25, 2020).
“Young People and Coronavirus,” CBC Vancouver Early Edition with Stephen Quinn (July 24, 2020) and CBC Vancouver Island (July 28, 2020).
“A Skeptic’s Guide to Democracy,” Writ Large, Lyceum podcasts (April 29, 2020).
“On Trusting Public Health Communications,” Financial Times Alphaville (April 17, 2020).
“Masks and Coronavirus,” BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC Vancouver (March 31, 2020).
Segment on 5 CBC stations in British Columbia on health communications around coronavirus (March 24, 2020).
Coronavirus disinformation, segment on Spice Radio, Vancouver (March 12, 2020).
“How This CBC Story Turned into a Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory,” CBC News (January 28, 2020).
“BC’s First Presumptive Case of Coronavirus,” BC Today with Michelle Eliot, CBC Vancouver (January 28, 2020).
“Concerns about Facebook’s Banning Deepfake Videos,” The National, CBC (January 7, 2020).
“Our Brains on Facebook,” Attention Control with Kevin Newman (October 14, 2019).
“Bots, Trolls, and Defending Our Election,” Canadian Global Affairs Institute (October 8, 2019).
“The Evolution of Disinformation,” The Spark, CBC Radio (October 6, 2019).
“Paying for Your Attention: Who’s Putting Political Ads in Your Newsfeed?” CTV Vancouver (October 2, 2019).
“How the Internet is Impacting Democracy,” CTV Morning Live, Vancouver (October 1, 2019).
“The Struggle to Write the Rulebook for Social Media,” Global Translations podcast (with Rep. Ro Khanna, Commissioner Vera Jourova, et al.), Politico (July 25, 2019).
“Published Opinion Is Not Public Opinion,” David Pakman Show (June 18, 2019).
“News from Germany,” New Books Network (June 17, 2019).
“YouTube Moves to Ban Neo-Nazi and Holocaust-Denying Videos,” CBC News Network (June 8, 2019).
“Misinformation Station,” Connected and Disaffected (May 21, 2019).
“Christchurch Call and Online Extremism,” CBC News Network (May 14, 2019).
“Social Media Apocalypse Now,” The Good Fight, Slate (April 10, 2019).
“Germany’s Quest to Control the News,” The American Interest Podcast (April 9, 2019).
“Disinformation in Perspective,” EUScream (March 31, 2019).
“Information Wars, Past and Present,” Late Night Live, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (March 26, 2019).
“Social Media Bots,” Communications Governance Observatory, McMaster University (December 3, 2018).
“Building a Made-in-Canada Solution to Harmful Online Hate,” The Spark, CBC Radio (November 16, 2018).
“Rhetorik der CSU auf dem Prüfstand,” (CSU Rhetoric under Scrutiny) Tagesthemen, ARD (June 26, 2018).
“Fake News and the Rise of Information Warfare,” The Global Exchange (June 11, 2018).
“Twitter Isn’t the Voice of the People and Media Shouldn’t Pretend It Is,” The Spark, CBC Radio (April 6, 2018).
“The New Old Fear of Media,” Connected and Disaffected (March 28, 2018).
“Net Neutrality,” Mark Leonard’s World in 30 Minutes, European Council on Foreign Relations (December 18, 2017).
“Facebook, Politics, and Foreign Influence,” The Spark, CBC Radio (October 22, 2017).
“Freedom of Speech and Populism,” The Brainstorm podcast (with Hans Kundnani and Yascha Mounk), Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (August 21, 2017).
“Securing a Digital Battlefield,” .Future Podcast (June 28, 2017).
“The Future of Ransomware and the Networked World,” The Spark, CBC Radio (May 21, 2017).
“Women at the United Nations,” Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 (February 3, 2017).
“Unpicking the United Nations,” (with Lord Mark Malloch Brown, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, and Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo), The Forum, BBC World Service (November 20, 2016).
“The United Nations at 70: Then & Now,” (with Susan Pedersen, Ambassador John Negroponte, Nina Khrushcheva, William Cohen, Ian Hurd, and Matthew Russell Lee) Huffington Post Live (October 24, 2015).
Panel Discussion Participant, “Are the Humanities in Crisis?,” KCRW (December 27, 2013).
Appearances since 2017 on radio and TV on CBC (many stations), CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CTV, City TV Vancouver, CJOB (Winnipeg), CKNW (Vancouver), Euronews, National Post Radio, News1130 (Vancouver), Ottawa Today 1310, Spice Radio Vancouver, 900 CHML (Hamilton, Ontario).
COMMISSIONS AND COUNCILS
Member, College of New Scholars, Royal Society of Canada, 2024 – 2031.
Member, National Expert Committee on Countering Radicalization to Violence, Public Safety Ministry, Canada, May 2023 – April 2025. This involves regular meetings every few months to advise the Public Safety Ministry on its approach to countering radicalization to violence, including online extremism.
Coordinator, Americas Regional Clinic, Platform://Democracy. Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders, Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, 2023. Funded by Stiftung Mercator.
Member, Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety, Heritage Ministry, Canada, 2022.
Member, Expert Panel, Public Safety in the Digital Age, Canadian Council of Academies, 2021 – 2023.
Member, Advisory Board, The Good Web Project, 2021 –.
Member, Working Group, Ensuring Democracy while Protecting Canadian National Security, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2021.
Member, Working Group on Language and Literacy, Covid-19 Task Force, Royal Society of Canada, 2021.
Member, Task Force on the Future of Transatlantic Relations, Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies, Bonn University, 2020.
Lead and Steering Committee Member, Transatlantic High-Level Working Group on Freedom of Expression and a Global Internet. USD $600,000 project funded and co-organized by Annenberg School of Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Information Law in Amsterdam, and the Dutch Embassy in the United States, 2018 – 2020.
Term Membership, Council on Foreign Relations, 2018 – 2023.
TESTIMONIES
Panellist, Disinformation, Digital Space, and Democratic Processes, Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, Canada, October 2024.
Witness, Hearing on Impact of Disinformation and Misinformation on the Work of Parliamentarians, Meeting 132, Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics (ETHI), October 2024.
Witness, Hearing on Illegal Sexually Explicit Material Online, Meeting 125, Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC), June 2024.
“German Regulation of Online Content,” Citizens’ Assembly on Democratic Expression, Ottawa, June 2022 (online).
“Transparency,” International Civil Servant Network (with Mark MacCarthy), Centre for International Governance Innovation, May 2021 (online).
“Effective Government Communications,” International Civil Servant Network (with Minister Audrey Tang), Centre for International Governance Innovation, February 2021 (online).
“How Do We Balance Privatized and Public Adjudication of Online Content?” Roundtable Discussion on Digital Platform Governance, Centre for International Governance Innovation and Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy, attended by multiple government ministers and civil servants (December 7, 2020).
“Social Media Councils and e-Courts,” Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression (November 12, 2020).
“Policy Options to Combat Online Harms,” Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression (October 29, 2020).
“Online Harms and Illegal Content,” Deputy Ministers Conference, Canada (September 14, 2020).
Witness, “Online Disinformation,” Informal Meeting of 27 European Union Justice Ministers (July 6, 2020).
Witness, Hearing on Online Hate, Meeting 152, Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (JUST), Canadian Parliament (May 30, 2019). Audio here.
Witness, International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy, convened by the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI), Canadian Parliament (May 27, 2019). Video here.
“Poisoning Democracy: How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Online,” (presented with Fenwick McKelvey and Chris Tenove), CRTC (Canada Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) Strategic Planning & Research Group, Ottawa, January 2019.
CONFERENCE AND PANEL ORGANIZATION
Co-organizer (with Alexander Bogner, Carsten Reinhardt, and Axel Jansen), “Science and Democracy in Political Crises, 1900-2024,” German Historical Institute, Washington DC, September 2024.
Co-organizer (with Chinmayi Arun, Robyn Caplan, and Phil Napoli), “Access || Archives || WorkArounds for Platform Research,” (online), June 2023.
Co-organizer (with Moe Jr. Labelle, Cindy Ewing, Zoe Leblanc, and Alan Maričić), “Collaborative Research Workshop on the History of the New World Information and Communications Order,” (online), June 2023.
Co-organizer (with Richard Wetzell), “Fifth West Coast Germanists’ Workshop,” UBC, Vancouver, April 2023.
Co-organizer (with Kshitij Sharan), CSDI Policy Communications Clinic Workshops, 12 workshops on policy communications for humanities, social sciences, and sciences, UBC, 2023 (hybrid). Funded by the Knowledge Exchange Unit, Vice President for Research and Innovation, UBC.
Organizer, “How to Regulate the Internet,” public panel, CSDI and Centre for Media, Democracy, and Technology (McGill), hosted by the Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver, February 2023.
Organizer, Platform Governance in Canada Workshop, hosted by the Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver, February 2023. Funded by the Heritage Ministry, Canada.
Co-organizer (with four other Canadian centres), “Digital Policy Rounds,” 5 events in 2022-23 (online). CSDI led the organization of the health communications panel in January 2023.
Co-organizer (with Yves Tiberghien), “Global Conversations about Digital Disruptions,” 3-event series, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Konwakai Chair in Japanese Studies, UBC, 2022-23 (online).
Organizer, “The New Nineteenth Century and Why Historians Should Care about It,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) roundtable, June 2022 (online).
Co-organizer (with 25 other scholars and 15 centers/institutions from around the world), Platform Governance Research Network, Inaugural Global Annual Conference, March 2021 (online).
Co-organizer (with Andreas Daum, Benjamin Hett, Brendan Karch, Eric Kurlander, Margaret Menninger, and Corinna Treitel), “DB 70: A Conference in Honor of David Blackbourn,” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, November 2019.
Co-organizer (with John Maxwell Hamilton and Daniel Runde), “Responding to the Fake News Challenge,” Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC, March 2019.
Co-organizer (with Quinn Slobodian and Rüdiger Graf), “The Politics of Sovereignty and Globalism in Modern Germany,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, March 2019. Funded by the German Historical Institute, Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, UBC History Department.
Panel Organizer and Moderator, “Securing Canadian Elections,” Canadian International Council, Vancouver, Canada, December 2018.
Co-organizer (with Chris Tenove), “Threatening Speech and Disinformation in Elections,” Public Policy Forum, Ottawa, Canada, May 2018.
Co-organizer (with Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund), “Roundtable: Media Ethics and Responsible Reporting on Russia,” Washington DC, December 2017.
Co-organizer (with Sophus Reinert), “Digital Technologies in the Social Sciences,” Harvard Business School, June 2017.
Co-organizer (with Christina Lubinski and Teresa da Silva Lopes), “International Business and Civilizations,” Paper Development Workshop, Business History Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2017.
Organizer, “Beyond the P5: The Historical Role of Non-Permanent Security Council Members in Global Governance,” Harvard University, October 2016.
Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada, United Nations Foundation, and the Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University.
Panel Organizer, “Material Politics: State Interactions with Objects in Weimar, Nazi, and Post-War Germany,” German Studies Association, San Diego, California, October 2016.
Co-organizer (with Jonas Brendebach and Martin Herzer), “Communicating International Organizations in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 2016. Funded by Alcide de Gasperi Research Centre on the History of European Integration and European University Institute.
Co-organizer (with Rhae Lynn Barnes, Nancy Cott, and Gabriel Pizzorno), “Digital History Day,” Harvard University, May 2015.
Co-organizer (with Margaret Higonnet), “Beyond the Western Front in World War I,” Harvard University, April 2015. Funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Organizer, Senior Thesis Conference, Harvard University, October 2014; November 2013; November 2012.
Co-organizer (with Stefan Link), “What was the Twentieth Century? An Event in Honor of Charles S. Maier,” Harvard University, April 2014.
Symposium Co-organizer (with Simone Müller), “Wiring Intelligence,” International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester, UK, July 2013.
Co-organizer (with Simone Müller), “The Intellectual Foundations of Global Communications and Commerce,” Harvard University, March 2013. Funded by German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), Foundation for German-American Academic Relations (Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen, SDAW), Harvard Asia Center, and Weatherhead Initiative on Global History.
Co-organizer (with Eva Bitran, Peter Christensen, Johan Mathew, Asher Orkaby, and Steffen Rimner), Graduate Student Conference on International History (ConIH), Harvard, March 2011.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, SEMINARS, AND COMMENTARIES
Panelist, (with Sonja Solomun et al.), “Practical Solutions and Policy Responses for Informed Climate Action,” Climate Mis/Disinformation Workshop, Information Integrity Lab, University of Ottawa, January 2025 (online).
Panelist (with Max Cameron and Hugh Gusterson), “The U.S. Election Post-Mortem: What Lies Ahead?,” School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC, January 2025.
Panelist (with Shelley Boulianne and Sabrina Delhon), “How Online Incivility Affects Democracy,” Democracy in Practice series, Canada School of Public Service, December 2024 (online).
Panelist, “Mis/Disinformation,” Vancouver International Security Summit, November 2024.
Panelist (with Shelley Boulianne and Aengus Bridgman), “Disinformation and Challenges to Democracy,” Institute on Governance, November 2024 (online).
Panelist (with Ghayda Hassan), “Social Trust and Polarization,” Geopolitics and National Security course, Canada School of Public Service, November 2024 (online).
“The State of Global History: A Critical Institutional Perspective,” Global History: Remapping Categories and Concepts, Queen’s University, ON, October 2024.
General Commentator, “Roundtable,” Science and Democracy in Political Crises, 1900-2024, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, September 2024.
“Elections and Democracy,” (with Meera Bains and Michael MacKenzie), CIVIX Bootcamp for BC Teachers, Vancouver, August 2024.
“Digital Newspapers,” Archive as Data, National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Summer School, Columbia University, June 2024 (online).
“Understanding the Transformations of World Politics through Infrastructures of Communication,” (with Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron), Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, June 2024.
“Disinformation, Technology, and History,” (with Walter Scheirer), American Council on Germany and German Consulate in New York, April 2024 (online).
“The Interwar World,” (with Andrew Denning), Interwar Working Group, European University Institute, March 2024 (online).
Commentator, “Commercial TV in the 1960s and 1970s,” Business History Conference, Providence, RI, March 2024.
“The History and Policy of Health Communications,” Harvard International and Global History Seminar, Cambridge, MA, March 2024.
“Disinformation in History,” Conference on the 4IR (Fourth Industrial Revolution) - Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation and Parliament: Ensuring the Integrity of our Digital Democracy, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, December 2023 (online).
Keynote Speaker, “Health Communications in an Era of Pandemics,” One Health and Zoonoses Symposium, Langley, BC, November 2023.
Moderator, “From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe with Timothy Garton Ash,” SPPGA, UBC, September 2023.
Commentator, “Temporalities,” Natural Resources, Sovereignty and Markets: Revisiting Socio-Economic Histories of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Harvard / Bern University, June 2023 (online).
“Digitized Newspapers,” Archive as Data, National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Summer School, Columbia University, May 2023 (online).
“Communication Strategies for Sciences,” (with KJ Sharan), CSDI Policy Communications Clinic, May 2023 (hybrid).
“Communication Strategies for Social Sciences and Humanities,” (with KJ Sharan), CSDI Policy Communications Clinic, May 2023 (hybrid).
“The AP Corporate Archives at 20: Writings from the Archives,” (with Richard Fine and Gene Allen), Associated Press, May 2023 (online).
“Policy Communications,” Language Latitudes Workshop, UBC, April 2023.
“The History of Polarization around Climate and Elections,” (with Sonja Solomun), Public Policy Forum, Ottawa, March 2023 (hybrid).
“Policy Briefs for Social Sciences and Humanities,” (with KJ Sharan), CSDI Policy Communications Workshop, UBC, February 2023 (hybrid).
Moderator, “How to Regulate the Internet,” (with Vass Bednar, Blayne Haggart, Emily Laidlaw, and Christelle Tessono), CSDI and Centre for Media, Democracy, and Technology (McGill), hosted by the Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver, February 2023.
Panelist, “Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies - Key Messaging Panels: Effectively Articulating the Whys and Hows of your Research,” UBC, February 2023 (online).
“Policy Communications for Social Sciences and Humanities,” (with KJ Sharan), CSDI Policy Communications Workshop, UBC, January 2023 (hybrid).
“Policy Communications for Sciences,” (with KJ Sharan), CSDI Policy Communications Workshop, UBC, January 2023 (hybrid).
“On-Line Harm: Can New Legislation Address This?,” (with Emily Laidlaw and David Morin), Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X), University of Toronto, January 2023 (online).
“Publishing Your First Book: A Seminar for Pre-Tenure Faculty,” (with Chris Lee and Chris Rea), University of British Columbia, January 2023.
“Disinformation and Canada’s International Development Efforts,” (with Chris Beall and Oleg Naumenko), Canadian Association of International Development Professionals (CAIDP-RPCDI), December 2022 (online).
“Media/Digital Literacy in an Era of Disinformation,” Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies Vancouver, November 2022 (online).
“Hate Speech in Canada,” Public Policy Forum BrightSpot Program for Canadian Civil Servants, November 2022 (hybrid).
“Policy Communications,” (with KJ Sharan), CSDI and Public Humanities Hub, November 2022 (hybrid).
“Dealing with Misinformation: Policy Approaches,” CanCOVID Expert Panel, November 2022 (online).
“Disinformation Disorder and Potential Solutions for Canada,” Distinguished Lecturer Series, MediaSmarts and Roger’s Chair Prof. Anabel Quan-Haase, Western University, October 2022 (hybrid).
Moderator, “Can Elections Survive the Digital Age?” Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, UBC, October 2022 (online).
“Information Manipulation in the Past and Present,” History Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, September 2022.
Panelist, “The Future of Democracy: Helping Governments Meet Future Challenges,” Future of Democracy Series, Canada School of Public Service and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, September 2022 (online).
Commentator, “Making Space, Materializing Inequality,” and Panelist, “Concluding Roundtable Discussion,” Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since 1800, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, September 2022.
Panelist, “Content Moderation,” Technology Policy Institute, Aspen, Colorado, August 2022.
Input, “Concluding Discussion,” Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, c. 1850-2000, Munich, June 2022.
“Democratic Health Communications in British Columbia,” BC Legislative Intern Program, June 2022 (online).
Moderator/Participant, “Publishing in Journals,” Society for the History of Foreign Relations (SHAFR), June 2022 (online).
“Publishing in Journal of Global History,” Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, June 2022.
“Historical Distortion and Ukraine,” Koerber Stiftung, Germany, May 2022 (online).
“Nazis and News,” Fulbright Historical Society, Vietnam, April 2022 (online).
“Harassment of Health Communicators,” Brock House, Vancouver, April 2022 (online).
Keynote Speaker, “Mis- and Disinformation,” Value & Ethics Day, Environment and Climate Change Canada, April 2022 (online).
“Kitchen Table Series: What is Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age?” (with Jamal Greene, David Kaye, and Philippe-Andre Rodriguez), Schwartz Reisman Institute, University of Toronto, March 2022 (online).
“Disinformation: It’s History,” Center on Hate, Bias and Extremism, Ontario Tech University, February 2022 (online).
Panellist, “Flagship Event: Germany's Coalition Government Diplomacy, a New Era and What this Means for Canada,” (with Senator Peter Harder and Daniel Stockemer), Canadian International Council, January 2022 (online).
Guest Lecture, “Health Communications during Covid-19,” Health Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, January 2022 (online).
Keynote Speaker, “Health Communications during Covid-19: Best Practices from around the World,” Communications in Healthcare Settings, Canada, December 2021 (online).
“Clean the Planet, Clean the Web,” XXI Infopoverty World Conference, The Observatory on Digital Communication in Special Consultative Status with United Nations/ECOSOC, December 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Disinformation and Challenges to Democracy,” (with Shelley Boulianne and Aengus Bridgman), Institute on Governance, December 2021 (online).
Panellist, “The Path Dependency of Infrastructure: A Commonly Neglected Aspect of Platform Governance,” Global Cooperation on Digital Governance and the Geoeconomics of New Technologies in a Multi-polar World, Project for Peaceful Competition, King’s College London and Centre for International Governance Innovation, November 2021 (online).
Commentator, “Restoring Democracy in the Age of Populism and Pestilence,” (with Jonathan Manthorpe) Vancouver Institute, November 2021 (online).
Panellist, “The Rise of Cross-National Conspiracy Theories,” (with Leticia Bode and Peter Pomerantsev), Aronson Speaker Series, International Studies Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, November 2021 (online).
Commentator, “Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte,” (with Serhii Plokhii, Jennifer Siegel, and Mary Sarotte), Washington History Seminar, Woodrow Wilson Center, November 2021 (online).
“Disinformation in International Context,” Mass LBP Citizens Assembly, Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, November 2021 (online).
“From Flies to File Storage: Policy Issues in the Life-Cycle of Explanatory Journalism,” (with Elizabeth Dubois and Sabrina Wilkinson), Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa, November 2021 (online).
“Globalgeschichte und Unternehmensgeschichte,” (with Simone M. Müller), Arbeitskreis für Kritische Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte (AKKU), November 2021 (online).
“Newspaper Databases and the Hidden Restrictions of Digitization Policies,” Infojustice Network Workshop, American University, October 2021 (online).
“The Future of History,” eCommemoration Convention Opening Panel, Körber-Stiftung (Foundation), October 2021 (online).
“History and Hate Speech in Germany,” 8th International Seminar on Law, Technology, and Innovation, Brazil, September 2021 (online).
“Business and Health,” Business History Conference Mid-Year Event, September 2021 (online).
“Contagious Communications: A Historical Perspective,” Media, Film, and Communication Seminar, University of Otago, New Zealand, September 2021 (online).
Moderator, “Shaping the Post-COVID World,” (with Drs. David Boyd, Kelley Lee, and Sandeep Pai), 2021 Virtual Policy Salon, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC, September 2021 (online).
“The History of Disinformation and Why It Still Matters Today,” Digital Disinformation Hub, Hans Bredow Institute, Germany, June 2021 (online).
“Tech Sovereignty vs. Global Governance: How History Explains the Future of Platform Regulation,” America in the World Consortium, June 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Digital Technologies: Building Global Trust,” T20 Spring Roundtable, Centre for International Governance Innovation and Italian Institute for International Political Studies, June 2021 (online).
Session Expert, “Teaching in an Era of Ideological Rivalry,” Research Huddle, University of Sydney, June 2021 (online).
Commentator, “Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands, edited by Peter Becker and Natasha Wheatley,” (with Paul Betts, Madeleine Herren-Oesch, and Pieter Judson), European University Institute, June 2021 (online).
“The Attention Economy,” (with Samantha Bradshaw and Bob Fay), Canadian School of Public Service and Centre for International Governance Innovation, May 2021 (online).
“Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics,” (with Chris Tenove), Board of Directors, Samara Centre for Democracy, Canada, May 2021 (online).
Guest videos, “Health Communications during Covid-19,” (with Yoojung Lee and Eseohe Ojo), Principles and Practice of Public Health, MSc Public Health, London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene, April 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Virtual Roundtable. Confronting Hatred: Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism and Holocaust Studies Today,” Journal of Holocaust Research, University of Haifa, April 2021 (online).
“Disinformation Challenging Democracy?” (with Chris Beall and Janet Silver), Institute on Governance, April 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Advancing Whole-of-Government and Allied Test Bed Efforts,” Global Engagement Center Counter Propaganda and Disinformation Technology Working Group, Geotech Center, Atlantic Council, April 2021 (online).
“Why Social Media Matters during a Pandemic: Using It Well and Effectively,” prepared video presentation, BC COVID-19 Vaccine Communications Collaboration and Networking Workshop, April 2021 (online).
Guest lecture, “Communications during Covid,” Health Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, April 2021 (online).
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,” Canadian International Council, Victoria, Canada, April 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Options for a Regulatory Framework,” (with Richard Janda), The Action Summit to Combat Online Hate, Ottawa, Canada, April 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Faculty Perspectives on Writing the Op-Ed,” Public Humanities Hub and the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication, UBC, April 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism Book Series Launch,” Centre for the Study of Internationalism, Birkbeck, March 2021 (online).
“International Health Communications from Cholera to Covid,” Université de Genève, March 2021 (online).
“Publishing Your First Journal Article,” History Graduate Seminar, Emory University, March 2021 (online).
Keynote Speaker, “When the Present Caught up with History,” Roger Gale Symposium in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: The Misinformation Age, University of British Columbia – Okanagan, March 2021 (online).
Panellist and discussant, “News, Empire, and the Making of Global Information Industries,” (with Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Arthur Asseraf), Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia, February 2021 (online).
“Online Harm: Protecting Canadian Democracy in the Age of Social Media,” (with MPs Charlie Angus, Iqra Khalid, and Bob Zimmer, and Chris Tenove), Friends of Canadian Broadcasting and Samara Centre for Democracy, February 2021 (online). Media coverage on the CBC, iPolitics, and New Canadian Media.
“Disinformation Challenging Democracy?” (with Chris Beall and Janet Silver), Institute on Governance, January 2021 (online).
“Democratic Health Communications during Covid-19,” International Studies Association Global Health Section, January 2021 (online).
Panellist, “Writing and Publishing Global History: A Journal Editors’ Roundtable,” American Historical Association, January 2021 (accepted roundtable; conference cancelled due to Covid-19).
Panellist (with Joan Donovan and Melanie Smith), “Conspiracy Theories and Covid Disinformation,” Concordia University and Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, December 2020 (online).
Moderator, “Online Platforms and Intermediary Liability: An Evolving Picture,” International Institute of Communications, December 2020 (online).
“The Infodemics of 2020: How This Year Changed the Debates on Disinformation,” Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, December 2020 (online).
Panelist (with Kristen Hopewell, Gyung-ho Jeong, and Paul Quirk), “The Aftermath of the US Elections,” UBC, November 2020 (online).
Moderator (with Johanna Hanefeld and Anend Parekh), “Living with the Virus: A Stress Test for Democracy,” German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin Office, November 2020 (online).
Panelist (with Matti Friedman, Zelda Abramson, and John Lynch), “Koffler Vine History Prize Awards Panel,” November 2020 (online).
Guest appearance, Public Affairs and Policy Management Capstone Seminar, Carleton University, November 2020 (online).
Moderator (with Kathryn Harrison, Gerald Baier, Richard Johnston, and Allan Tupper), “British Columbia Post-Election Roundtable,” UBC and Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, October 2020 (online).
Moderator (with Andre Brock, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Francesca Tripodi), “Disinformation, Authenticity, and Democratic Participation,” Center for Brooklyn History, Social Science Research Concil, and Digital Democracies Institute, October 2020 (online).
“Democratic Covid Communications: BC in Global Context,” (with Ian Beacock), British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, October 2020 (online).
“Ernst Fraenkel Prize Lecture,” Wiener Holocaust Library, October 2020 (online).
Panellist (with Matt Rivitz), “Technology and the 2020 Elections,” Stanford course taught by Marietje Schaake and Rob Reich, October 2020 (online).
“Covid-19 Communications in South Korea and Canada,” (with Yoojung Lee), Centre for Korean Research, UBC, October 2020 (online).
Moderator (with Emily Rempel, Howard Njoo, William Savedoff, Zabulon Yoti), “The Role of Evidence in Policy-Making in the Covid-19 Era,” Policy Salon, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and School of Population and Public Health, UBC, October 2020 (online).
“Democratic Health Communications: A RAPID Response,” (with Victoria Ker and Sean Wu), Policy Salon, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and School of Population and Public Health, UBC, October 2020 (online).
“Historical Memory and Democratic Health Communications during Covid-19,” University College Dublin Environmental Humanities Group, October 2020 (online).
“Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics,” (with Chris Tenove), Canadian Jewish Political Action Committee, September 2020 (online).
Moderator, “Massy Reads: On Ethics, Rights and Democracy, with Joel Bakan and Kimberley Brownlee,” September 2020 (online).
“Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics,” (with Chris Tenove), Equal Voice, September 2020 (online).
Panellist (with Daniel Bernhard, Minister Catherine McKenna, and Taylor Owen), “Platforms for Harm?,” Centre for International Governance Innovation, September 2020 (online).
“International History on the Internet,” Modern International and Transnational History Program, University of Oslo, September 2020 (online).
“Science Communication and Dealing with Uncertainty in the Era of Covid-19,” R. Grant Ingram Distinguished Speaker Program 2020, St. John’s College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, September 2020 (online).
Moderator, “Election Interference in the Information Environment – The Role of the Media in Mitigation and Response,” Paris Call Community on Countering Election Interference, Alliance for Securing Democracy, Microsoft, and Government of Canada, September 2020 (online).
Keynote Speaker, “Democratic Health Communications during Covid-19,” BC Research and Collaboration Symposium, September 2020 (online).
“Talking Book Writing with the Tankard Award Finalists,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, August 2020 (online).
“Online Hatred and Harassment in Canada: A Case Study of the 2019 Election,” Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, July 2020 (online).
Panellist (with Chris Beall and David Greene), “Online Hate Speech and the Santa Clara Principles,” Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, July 2020 (online).
Panellist (with Renisa Mawani), “Marketing the Monograph: A Conversation on How to Promote Your Book,” Public Humanities Hub, UBC, Vancouver, June 2020 (online).
Panellist (with Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Nitsan Chorev, and Thomas Zimmer), “Covid-19, the WHO, and International Society,” Harvard International and Global History Seminar, June 2020 (online).
Panellist, “Historical Parallels in Government Information Dissemination: What We Can Learn from the Past,” Manship School, Louisiana State University, May 2020 (online).
“Democratic Public Health Communications,” Language Sciences Initiative, UBC, May 2020 (online).
Panellist, “The Role of Media and Journalism in Times of Crisis,” Reset Everything, April 2020.
Panellist, “Antifascist Language(s) and Agency in Multilingual Society,” Antifascist Language in Multilingual Societies: A Symposium, Dartmouth University, April 2020 (online due to coronavirus).
“5G in Historical Perspective,” Applied History Working Group, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2020 (cancelled due to coronavirus).
“German News in the Past and Today,” American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Charlotte Chapter, North Carolina, March 2020 (cancelled due to coronavirus).
Panellist, “Obnoxious Speech before the Age of Twitter,” Slate Future Tense and the Tech, Law & Security Program at American University, Washington DC, February 2020.
“Trolling on the Campaign Trail: How Candidates Experience and Respond to Online Abuse,” Digital Ecosystems Research Challenge Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, February 2020.
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,” The Brady-Johnson Speaker Series in Grand Strategy and International Security, Yale University, February 2020.
“Interesting History: News from Germany,” Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, Vancouver, BC, February 2020.
“Infectious Information: The History of Health Communications and Why It Still Matters Today,” Louisiana State University, February 2020.
Moderator, “New Horizons in Business History,” American Historical Association, New York, January 2020.
“History Lessons for the Future: The International Information Order,” Information, Influence, and the Swedish Narrative: A Seminar for Swedish Officials, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2019.
Panellist, “Policy Proposals for Platform Governance,” International Cooperation on Platform Governance Workshop, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Dublin, Ireland, November 2019.
“When Lies Ruled the World: The History of German Information Warfare and Why It Matters Today,” Harvard Institute for Learning and Retirement, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2019.
Moderator, “Post-Election Roundtable,” UBC Event for Journalists on the Canadian Election, Vancouver, October 2019.
“Towards an International History of Germany,” Food for Thought Luncheon, German Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, October 2019.
“Media History and Policy,” Digital Democracy Lab, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, September 2019.
Panelist, “Digital Threats to Democracy: News Literacy in an Era of Misinformation,” CIVIX Democracy Bootcamp, Vancouver, September 2019.
“History and Transatlantic Media Regulation: A Brown Bag Lunch Discussion,” German Marshall Fund, Berlin, Germany, August 2019.
“Hate Speech vs. Free Speech: Transatlantic Cooperation on the Regulation of Social Media,” German Marshall Fund, Berlin, Germany, August 2019.
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,” Economic and Social History Group, Göttingen University, Germany, July 2019.
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,” Political Science Colloquium, University of Constance, Germany, July 2019.
“News from Germany: The History of Information Warfare and Why It Still Matters Today,” SPUI25 Academic-Cultural Forum, Amsterdam, July 2019.
“Media and the Social Norms of Public Opinion: How Political and Economic Elites Tried to Change Germans’ Minds,” Radical Business? Business and the Contest over Social Norms, Oxford University, UK, June 2019.
Panelist, “The Politics of Communication Across the Mediterranean: From Manuscripts to the Internet,” Europe in the Middle East Program, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany, June 2019.
Panelist, “Using Social Media in the 21st Century: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly,” Worldviews on Media and Higher Education Conference, Toronto, June 2019.
“Hate Speech in Canada: A Democratic Threat Requiring New Policy Incentives,” Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, Vancouver, May 2019.
“News from Germany: Book Launch,” Beth Israel Synagogue, Vancouver, May 2019.
“Media Disruption: Lessons from German History on Addressing Hate Speech,” Regulating Speech in a Digital Age: Continuing Professional Development Event for Lawyers, Vancouver, May 2019.
“Radio, War, and All the Light We Cannot See,” York House School, Vancouver, May 2019.
Moderator, “Hate Speech and Violent Extremism,” and Member of Steering Committee, Second Meeting of the High-Level Transatlantic Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression, Annenberg Beach House, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, May 2019.
“History Lab,” Poster Display, Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Showcase, UBC, Vancouver, May 2019.
“Communicable Disease and the Asynchronous History of Globalization,” Research Seminar, Brigham Young University, April 2019.
“News from Germany: The Long History of Information Warfare,” David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University, April 2019.
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,” Institute for European Studies, UBC, Vancouver, March 2019.
“Migration, Diaspora, Displacement,” 30 Years of Transition: The Current State of Eastern European Countries, International Relations Student Association Conference, UBC, Vancouver, March 2019.
“The Rise of Populism in Europe and the USA: A Return to the 1930s?” Brock House Lecture Series, Vancouver, Canada, March 2019.
“The Impact of Communications in Global History,” World Society and Its History Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2019.
“How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Online,” Language Sciences Initiative, University of British Columbia, March 2019.
Lead, Transatlantic High-Level Working Group Meeting on Hate Speech and Violent Extremism Online, Ditchley Park, United Kingdom, February-March 2019.
Moderator, “The Role of Media in Countering Foreign Authoritarian Interference in Europe,” Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels, Belgium, February 2019.
Panelist (with members of the Bundestag), “Die Zukunft der Demokratie,” Women in International Security Deutschland 15th Anniversary Conference, Berlin, Germany, November 2018.
“News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945,” New Directions in Modern German History, Princeton University, November 2018.
“Fake News: Does It Have a History and Why Does That Matter?” BC Humanist Association, October 2018.
Keynote Speaker, “How the Media Made Politics about Personalities and Parties,” Politics in Public: The Mediatization of Political Personae 1880s-1930s, Leuven, Belgium, October 2018.
“The WHO and Health Communications,” The WHO at 70, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 2018.
Commentator, “Communications,” World Economic History Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2018.
Commentator, “Inattentive Subjects: The Emergence of a Photojournalistic Norm,” by Annie Rudd, Observing the Everyday, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, June 2018.
“Secret Press Agents: When Journalists, Propagandists, and Spies Seem Indistinguishable,” Observing the Everyday, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, June 2018.
Sovereignty, Communications, and World Society,” World Society and its History, Osterhofen, Germany, June 2018.
“A Quintessential Middle Power? Canada on the International Stage after World War II,” Workshop: Middle Power Internationalism in an Increasingly Illiberal World, Ottawa, Canada, May 2018.
“Fake News: A Modern History,” The Breaux Symposium: An Anatomy of Fake News, Washington, DC, May 2018.
Briefing to twenty congressional staffers, “Information,” Washington, DC, May 2018.
“News, Communications, and Text Analytics,” Data Analytics Workshop, Data Science Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, April 2018.
“Dealing with Disinformation,” Congress Bundestag Forum (meeting of six members of Congress and eight members of the Bundestag), Colorado Springs, CO, April 2018.
Table lead and invited participant, “Digital Media and Democracy,” Public Policy Forum and UBC, Ottawa, April 2018.
“The History Lab – What is the Role of Digital History?” (with Mark Werner), Pixelating, Koerner Library, UBC, March 2018.
“Ausbildungssysteme in Europa und in den USA,” full-day presentation to University of Zurich MA students in Applied History, New York, March 2018.
“The New German Government and Challenges to Democracy,” American Council on Germany, New York, March 2018.
Panelist, “This Content is Not Available Online: Hate Speech and Disinformation,” EU @ SXSW, Austin, Texas, March 2018.
“Communicable Disease: The League of Nations and the Creation of World Epidemiological Intelligence,” Harvard International and Global History Seminar, Cambridge, MA, February 2018.
“Communications, Information, Knowledge,” Multinationals and the Transformation of the World Economy, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2017.
Keynote Speaker, “Lies are the Law of the World! News and Global Media Networks in the 20th Century,” Inaugural Keynote for Graduate School, Institute for World Society, Bielefeld, Germany, October 2017.
“(Digitalisierte) Zeitungen als Quelle historisch-soziologischer Untersuchung — Reflexion und Erfahrungsbericht,” Workshop: Historische Soziologie der Rankings, Universität Bielefeld, October 2017.
Commentator, “Disease Control and Colonial Knowledge: Sleeping Sickness Campaigns between Empires and International Development Aid” by Sarah Ehlers, German Historical Institute West Inaugural Workshop: “Empires of Knowledge: Expertise and Imperial Power Across the Long Twentieth Century,” Vancouver, British Columbia, September 2017.
Participant, Munich Security Conference Cybersecurity Summit, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2017.
“The End of Epidemics? International Health Communications in the 20th Century,” International and Global History Seminar, Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Peru, June 2017.
“Digital Techniques and International History,” International and Global History Seminar, Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Peru, June 2017.
Discussion Leader, “Teaching American Democracy and Its History,” A Conference on the History of American Democracy, Tobin Project, Cambridge MA, June 2017.
“The Local and the International: Why National Newspapers May Matter Less Than We Think,” A Conference on the History of American Democracy, Tobin Project, Cambridge MA, June 2017.
Roundtable Participant, Languages of Internationalism, Birkbeck, University of London, May 2017.
“A Decade in the Transatlantic Relationship: Where Does It Go from Here?” Closing Conference of the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC, May 2017.
Briefings to National Security Council, German Embassy in the United States, and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), May 2017.
“Two False Endings to World War I,” Symposium on Global Media, Global Identities, The Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity, Washington, DC, April 2017.
Commentator, “The Development of Business Journalism,” Business History Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 2017.
Commentator, “International Business Concepts,” Paper Development Workshop, Business History Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2017.
Speaker, “How (Not) to Talk about Politics,” Brussels Forum, Belgium, March 2017.
Moderator (with David Herszenhorn, Natalie Nougayrède, and Christoph von Marshall), “Europe’s Year of Decisions – Elections in 2017,” Brussels Forum, Belgium, March 2017.
Panelist, “Fake News and Lügenpresse: Lessons for Europe,” Young Transatlantic Network, German Marshall Fund, Berlin, March 2017.
Panelist, “Making News,” Joint Journalism Historians Conference Closing Panel, New York, March 2017.
Commentator, “The Problem of Propaganda,” Joint Journalism Historians Conference, New York, March 2017.
Commentator, “The New Right and Changing Historical Memory in Germany,” Anna Sauerbrey, EES Distinguished Lecture Series, SAIS-John Hopkins, Washington, DC, February 2017.
“A New Era for Transatlantic Business? A New President and Clashes in a Digital Age,” American Council on Germany Political Salon, New York, December 2016.
“Brexit and the English-Speaking World,” Brexit Before and Beyond, Columbia University, December 2016.
Moderator (with Leszek Balcerowicz), “Elections Have Consequences: A Look at Poland,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, November 2016.
“Infrastructure and Information in a Wired World,” Sociology and History of World Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Globalization, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn, November 2016.
Panel Participant, “The Politics of European Monetary Union,” German Power and Leadership, German Marshall Fund, September 2016.
Discussant, “International Organizations in the Cold War,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, San Diego, California, June 2016.
“Communicable Disease: The League of Nations and the Creation of World Epidemiological Intelligence,” Reluctant Internationalists Group, Birkbeck, University of London, June 2016.
Discussant, “Privatizing Public Goods,” Business History Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 2016.
“Communicating Quarantine: How Wireless Technology Helped to Create World Health,” Science and Technology Studies Colloquium, University of British Columbia, February 2016.
“How Wireless made the War Global: World War I beyond an Anglo-Centric Perspective,” Workshop on the History of Interwar Telecommunications, Leeds, UK, January 2016.
“Expanding International Regulation from Telegraphy to Telecommunications,” Transnational Histories of Telecommunications, International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2015.
“Hapless Propagandists? German News in the United States during World War I and Digital Approaches to Media Studies,” Ziegler Speaker Series, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia, November 2015.
“History Lab: Active Learning in the Classroom,” History Department Retreat, University of British Columbia, September 2015.
Keynote Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony, Framingham State University, April 2015.
“The Savior of the Nation: Radio in Interwar Germany, Great Britain, and the United States,” Center for History and Economics Seminar, Harvard, February 2015.
“War and Peace,” Harvard Model United Nations Congress, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2015.
“Asia at the United Nations and the History of International Public Health,” 100 Years of Health in Asia, Harvard Center for History and Economics, Asia Center, and China Medical Board, October 2014.
Commentator, “How to See the World Economy: Communicating Globalization around 1900,” by Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College History Department Seminar, October 2014.
“Berlin Calling Buenos Aires and Beijing: The Creation of News in Germany and Abroad, 1900–1945,” Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, September 2014.
“Nachrichten aus Deutschland: Globale Mediennetzwerke im 20. Jahrhundert,” Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, July 2014.
“A Dangerous Element for the Interests of Peace: German News on a Global Stage,” Center for Area Studies Public Colloquium, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, July 2014.
Guest lecture, “Copyright,” Framingham State University, Massachusetts, October 2013.
Commentator, “Identity and Nation,” Actor-Networks between Global Markets and the Nation, 1650–1950, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, August 2013.
Commentator, “The Many Worlds of Unified Time in the Age of Global Comparison, 1870–1930” by Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard International and Global History Seminar, February 2013.
“Der Weg ins Freie? Deutsche Nachrichtenagenturen in transnationaler Verflechtung,” Kolloquium zur Mediengeschichte, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, July 2011.
“Das deutsche Nachrichtenwesen in internationaler Verflechtung,” Kolloquium zur Zeitgeschichte, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin, November 2009.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Archives and the Preservation of Platforms,” Association of Internet Researchers, Sheffield, UK, October 2024 (online).
Moderator, “The New Nineteenth Century and Why Historians Should Care about It,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) roundtable, June 2022 (online).
Facilitator, “Beyond Content Moderation: Ensuring Digital Platform Transparency Measures Address Global Challenges,” RightsCon, June 2022 (online).
“Historical Alternatives to Disinformation Studies,” What Comes after Disinformation Studies? Pre-Conference, International Communications Association, Paris, France, May 2022.
“Trust in Public Health Information,” International Workshop on Trust in Democratic Institutions, Social Science Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council, March 2022 (online).
“State Power in a Platform Age,” International Studies Association, March 2022 (paper accepted but declined to attend in person).
“Infrastructure and Health: How Communications Made Diseases Global,” American Historical Association, February 2022 (online).
Panelist (with Mark Bradley, Anne Foster, and Barbara Keys), “Journals after the Pandemic,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, June 2021 (online).
Symposium, “Do We Need a New History of Epidemiology?,” (with Lukas Engelmann, Richard McKay, Jacob Steere-Williams), American Association for the History of Medicine, May 2021 (online).
“Infrastructure and Health: How Communications Made Diseases Global,” American Historical Association, January 2021 (accepted paper; conference cancelled due to Covid-19).
“News Agencies,” American Historical Association, January 2021 (online due to Covid-19).
“Authenticity and Health Communications,” Authenticity Workshop, Social Science Research Council and Digital Democracies Institute, October 2020 (online).
“Politically So Embarrassing: How the Headquarters of International Organizations Changed International Relations,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, New Orleans, June 2020 (accepted paper; conference cancelled due to Covid-19).
“Secret Press Agents: When Journalists, Spies, and Propagandists Seemed Indistinguishable,” German Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, October 2019.
“Statistics and Public Health at the League of Nations,” History of Science Society, Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 2019.
“The Platforms and Their Predecessors: How History Helps Us to Understand Their Rise,” International Communications Association Post-Conference on The Rise of the Platforms, Washington, DC, May 2019.
“The International History of Health Communications,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, April 2019.
“Communicational Sovereignty,” The Politics of Sovereignty and Globalism in Modern Germany, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, March 2019.
“What We Can Really Learn from the Comparisons with Weimar Germany,” Media, Technology, and Democracy in Historical Context, Social Science Research Council workshop, Washington, DC, December 2018.
“Multinationals and the Transformation of the World Economy: Communications,” World Economic History Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2018.
“The German Government and International Communications, 1900-1945,” World Economic History Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2018.
“Pathogenic Communications and Alternative Chronologies for International History,” What is International History Now?, University of Sydney, Australia, July 2018.
“Radio and Nation-Building in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States,” Society for the History of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2017.
“False News and Economic Nationalism,” Seminar on Economic Populism, German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2017.
“Save the World from Singapore: The Rockefeller Foundation and International Health Communications,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, Washington DC, June 2017.
“News and Digital Techniques,” Digital Techniques in the Social Sciences, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2017.
“Coded Language: Health, Statistics, and Telegraphic Communications at the League of Nations,” Languages of Internationalism, Birkbeck, University of London, May 2017.
“The Secret Press Agent: How Journalists and Spies Learned Their Craft,” Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, March 2017.
“Canada’s Middle Power Project Takes Flight: The International Civil Aviation Organization and the World of Mass Tourism,” Beyond the P5, Harvard University, October 2016.
“The Politics of Paper in the Early Weimar Republic,” German Studies Association, San Diego, California, October 2016.
“A Redivision of Labor: Wireless and Radio Broadcasting across Borders in the 1930s,” The Radio Conference, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, July 2016.
“Communicable Disease: How the League of Nations Used Information to Prevent Epidemics,” Communicating International Organisations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 2016.
“The Bottleneck of Global Media: German News Agencies and the World of Reporting,” The Global Public: Its Power and Its Limits, German Historical Institute in London, October 2015.
“Communications and Competition in China, 1900–1945,” Business History Conference, Miami, June 2015.
“Subsidizing Content and Conduit: Global Wireless Communications and the State,” International Communication Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
“Germany in the Ether: News and Propaganda around the World,” Beyond the Western Front in World War I, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2015.
“Competing Visions of News and International Law at the League of Nations,” American Society of Legal History, Denver, Colorado, November 2014.
“Espionage, News, and Technology in World War I,” German Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, September 2014.
“The International Creation of Domestic Legislation on the Press,” International Communication Association, Seattle, Washington, May 2014.
“Reporting the World: European News Networks, 1870–1939,” European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2014.
“German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905–45,” Business History Conference, Frankfurt am Main, March 2014.
“Advertising Economic Nationalism in the Weimar Republic,” American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014.
“News,” German Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, October 2013.
“Spying for Information: German Espionage and News in World War I,” International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester, UK, July 2013.
“Pals over Politics: The Development of Radio in Weimar Germany,” German Historical Institute Workshop, New Technologies and Cultures of Communication, Washington, DC, May 2013.
“News Agencies and Revolution in Weimar Germany,” In Search of Revolution, 1916–1923: Germany and its European Context, Cologne, Germany, March 2013.
“Networks behind the News: German News Agencies, Cartels, and Technology, 1849–1939,” German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2012.
“Negotiating News: The Conference of Press Experts at the League of Nations,” presented in absentia, Entanglements in Legal History, Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt am Main, August 2012.
“Competing Media Empires: The Political Agendas of American, French, and German News Agencies in South America, 1914–1945,” Conference on Policy History, Richmond, Virginia, June 2012.
“Tuning in to the State: The Supply of Economic News in Weimar Germany,” Business History Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2012.
“Spreading the Revolution: News Agencies and Politics in Weimar Germany,” American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2012.
“German Wireless News Goes Global, 1913–1945,” Society for the History of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2011.
“The Global Regulation of Telegraphy: Interwar Negotiations on Intellectual Property in News,” Global Communication Electric: Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Telegraphy, Freie Universität, Berlin, February 2011.
“Protection of the Press: Attempts at the Legal Regulation of News, 1900–1933,” German Studies Association, Oakland, California, October 2010.
“Transocean and Wireless Telegraphy, 1914–1922,” Telecommunication and Globalization: Information Flows in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, University of Heidelberg, September 2009.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Instructor, “Communicating Policy,” Spring 2022, Spring 2023, and Spring 2025.
Taught compulsory first-year course to first-year Public Policy MA students.
Instructor, “International Relations in the 20th Century,” 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2022, 2023, 2025.
Taught year-long course to 72-108 undergraduates as well as one tutorial.
Instructor, “Global Internet Policy,” Fall 2019 and Fall 2021.
Taught seminar to between 17 and 23 Masters students in Journalism and in Public Policy.
Instructor, “Digital History of News: Seminar,” Spring 2018 and Fall 2018.
Taught first two iterations of digital history course supported by CAD $50,000 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund grant to 35 juniors and seniors.
Instructor, “The History of News: Seminar in International Relations,” Spring 2016.
Taught seminar with research papers to 26 juniors and seniors.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Lecturer on History, June 2012 – June 2015.
Taught year-long Senior Thesis Tutorial and one additional course. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for Senior Thesis Tutorial in fall 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Instructor, “The History of International Organizations,” History Department, Fall 2014.
Taught seminar to 15 undergraduates that resulted in primary source research papers.
Instructor, “Breaking Headlines: The History of News,” History Department, Spring 2014.
Taught lecture course on international history of news to 45 undergraduates. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Instructor, Tutorial, “History Lab,” History Department, Fall 2013 and Spring 2015.
Co-created first iterations of course enabling students to work on digital history projects with faculty. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Advisor, Senior Theses, 2011 – 2012 and 2013 – 2014.
Advised senior theses on Indian press politics and the Venice film festival.
Prize Instructor, “The History of News,” History Department, Fall 2011 and Spring 2013.
Awarded opportunity to design and teach own seminar to undergraduates. Taught again in spring 2013. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for both iterations.
Co-Instructor (with Professor Peter Gordon), “Graduate Colloquium on Teaching Practices,” History Department, 2011 – 2012.
Redesigned syllabus and created comprehensive website for course introducing graduate students to teaching history. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Tutor, Conference Course, “United Nations: A Global History” (Professors Emma Rothschild and Sugata Bose), History Department, Spring 2011.
Helped to design syllabus. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Tutor, “Sophomore Tutorial,” History Department, Spring 2011.
Taught two weekly sections on historical writing and led peer-review discussions of student work. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Teaching Fellow, “Modern Central Europe” (Dr. Brendan Karch), History Department, Fall 2010.
Taught one section and gave one guest lecture on Ostpolitik.
Head Teaching Fellow, “World Wars in a Global Context, 1905–1950” (Professor Charles Maier), General Education Program, Fall 2010.
Administered course and taught one section in its first iteration as a General Education course.
Teaching Fellow, “Germany in the World, 1600–2000” (Professor David Blackbourn), General Education Program, Spring 2009.
Taught one section. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Teaching Fellow, “World War II” (Professor Charles Maier), Core Program, Fall 2008.
Taught three sections. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, Cambridge, MA
Instructor, “Harmful Speech from Radio to Social Media,” January term course, January 2021.
Göttingen University, Germany
Instructor, “The History of News and Global Capitalism,” MA in the History of Global Markets, July 2019.
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Co-Instructor (with Simone M. Müller), “America on the Move: Technology and the American Nation,” John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Spring 2010.
STUDENTS SUPERVISED
University of British Columbia
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Dr. Marco Zenone (2024-2026);
Dr. Will Wright (2021-2022);
Dr. Chris Tenove (2018-2020, 2021, 2022);
Dr. Ian Beacock (2020).
PhD Co-Supervisor:
Rabia Mir, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program, Co-supervisor: Adele Diamond (2021- ).
Manimugdha Sharma, History, Co-supervisor: Anne Murphy (2021- ).
PhD Committee Member:
Cassandra Andrew, “Understanding, Monitoring, and Mitigating Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Social and Epidemiological Pathways,” School of Population and Public Health (2023- );
Nathan Gan, “Cultured Socialism: Cultural Media in Mao’s China, 1949–1965,” History (2019- );
Mark Werner, “Looking for the Killer: A History of Orca Encounters, 1861-1964,” History (2019-2021);
Jihyun Shin, “Gendering Capitalism: Rationalizing the Pursuit of Money-Making in South Korea, 1961-1979” (2018-2022).
UBC University Examiner for PhD defence:
Dorothee Leesing, “Engaging the High-Rise in German Media Culture: Aspects of Vertical Living from 1945 to 2020,” Central European Northern European Studies (2021);
Jeffrey Whyte, “Lines of Communication: American Psychological Warfare in the Twentieth Century,” Geography (2019).
MA Supervisor:
Claire Oliver, “‘From One British Island to Another’: British Imperialism, Colonial Nationalism, and the Pacific Cable Telegraph, 1879-1902,” History (2016-2018).
MA Co-Supervisor:
Lisa Ren, “China in the News: The Globalization of Xinhua News Agency, 1978 to 1989,” History, Co-supervisor: Tim Cheek (2020-2022). Winner of SSHRC scholarship to support MA;
Nathan Lucky, “A Voice behind the Headlines: The Public Relations of the Canadian Jewish Congress during World War II,” History, Co-supervisor: Richard Menkis (2018-2021). Winner of Marcia Koven Award for Best Student Paper at the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Conference;
Steven O’Reilly, “Middle Power Continuity: Canada-US Relations and Cuba, 1961-1962,” History, Co-supervisor: Steven Lee (2016-2018).
Second Reader for MA theses:
Lui Xia Lee, “Pressing for Melayu: English-Language Newspapers and Language in the Malaysian Education System, 1957-1969,” History (2021).
Third Reader for MA theses:
Daniel Carkner, “‘Looking at the Reports from These Newspapers, the Reasons for the Riot are Unclear’: Sympathetic and Unsympathetic Press Coverage of an Anti-Chinese Riot in 1918 Java,” History (2019);
Eriks Bredovskis, “Paths to Empire: The Production and Mobilization of Historical Narratives by Baltic German Émigrés, 1905-1918,” History (2016);
Vivien Chang, “The New Frontier of American Diplomacy: African Decolonization, Modernization, and the Making of a Civil Rights Narrative,” History (2016);
Dexter Fergie, “Re-Imagining America: The Princeton Military Studies Group and the Cultivation of the National Security Imagination, 1933-1947,” History (2016).
BA theses:
Bethlehem Samson, “Feminism and Reproductive Rights in the United States, 1960-2000,” History (2022).
Kevin Chan, “A Democratic Republic of the Saar? Borderlands and East German Nationalism, 1945-1957,” History (2021). Thesis awarded Leslie F. S. Upton Memorial Prize for Best Essay in a Competitive Examination Organized and Adjudicated by the History Department;
Sheryl Lim, “Re-Emerging on the International Stage: China’s Role in the Creation of the United Nations, c. 1945,” History (2018). Thesis awarded J. H. Stewart Reid Medal and Prize in Honours History.
Research assistants and associates:
Undergraduates: Candice Chan (2019); Kevin Chan (2019-2020, 2021); Jacob Cutts (2017-2018); Tiago de Souza Jensen (2016); Chloe Fraser (2022); Jaskiran Gakhal (2019-2020); Jonathan Gough (2018); Sophia Guo (2019); Jordan Kantypowicz (2019); Natasha Lee (2022); Yoojung Lee (2020, 2021); Sheryl Lim (2016); Sonya Manuel (2019-2020); Camile Oliveira (2018); Sharon Sa (2022-2023); Veronica Stolba (2020); Natasha Williams (2018).
MA students: Wilson Dargbeh (2021-2022); Andrés Delgado-Ron (2022); Joseph Flores (2022-2023); Nishtha Gupta (2024); Sabah Haque (2022-2023); Hanna Hett (2021-2023); Victoria Ker (2020); Lui Xia Lee (2021); Naomi Louie (2022-2023); Nathan Lucky (2021); Hiren Mansukhani (2020); Netheena Matthews (2024); Claire Okatch (2022); Eseohe Ojo (2020); Jackson Porreca (2022-2023); Panthea Pourmalek (2022-2023); Lisa Ren (2021); Kshitij Sharan (2022); Elizabeth Williams (2018-2019); Sean Wu (2020-2021); Oliver Zhang (2021-2023).
PhD students: Jordan Buffie (2019-2020); Trevor Deley (2019-2020); Henrik Jacobsen (2022-2023); Mark Werner (2017-2019, 2021).
Independent contractor: Dr. Grace Lore (2019-2020).
Outside UBC
External Committee Member (involvement the same as internal committee members):
Valentina Parisi, “Engineering “Public Health in Reverse”: The Politics of Biological Warfare Research, Programming, and Preparedness (1930-1990),” Columbia University (2021- ).
Samuel Parsons, “Empire and Communications in the 21st Century,” Australian National University (2023- ).
External PhD Examiner:
Chris Schaefer, “Covering the World with the International Herald Tribune,” University of Cambridge (2022).
ACADEMIC SERVICE
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Member, Admissions Committee, Sciences Po-UBC Dual Degree, 2025.
Chair, Reappointment Committee for Dr. Veena Sriram, SPPGA/School of Population and Public Health, 2024 – 2025.
Member, Committee for Appointment of Director of SPPGA, 2024 – 2025.
Member, Executive Council, Centre for European Studies, 2024 –
Member, Awards Committee, Graduate Fellowship, Centre for Computational Social Science, UBC, 2024.
Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), 2022 – .
Member, Directors’ Table, SPPGA, 2022 – .
Member, Merit Committee, SPPGA, 2023.
Member, Lind Initiative Advisory Committee, SPPGA, 2023 – .
Member, Holocaust Education Committee, 2018 – .
Member and Grant Writing Advisor, Graduate Committee, History Department, 2022 – 2023, 2024 – 2025.
Member, Advisory Board, Centre for European Studies, 2022 – 2024.
Member, Steering Committee, Language Sciences Global Research Excellence Institute (GREx), 2021 – 2023.
Member, Steering Committee, Public Humanities Hub, Faculty of Arts, 2019 – 2023 (member of Inaugural Steering Committee).
Member, Governance Committee, Public Humanities Hub, Faculty of Arts, 2022 – 2023.
Member, Awards Committee, Public Humanities Hub, Faculty of Arts, 2019 –2022.
Member, Public Engagement Awards Committee, Public Humanities Hub, Faculty of Arts, 2021.
Member, Conway Scholarship, History Department, 2022.
Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Climate and Energy Policy, SPPGA, 2021 – 2022.
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Global History pre-1500, 2021.
Chair, Ad Hoc White Paper Committee, SPPGA, 2021.
Member, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, SPPGA, 2021.
Member, Merit Committee, History Department, 2020.
Member, Graduate Committee, and Organizer, Professional Development Workshop, History Department, 2019 – 2020.
Member, Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, History Department, 2019.
Reviewer, Annual Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s/ UBC Affiliated Fellowship Master’s Competitions, 2018 and 2019.
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Modern Middle East, History Department, 2018.
Supervisor, New Approaches to Modern Europe Cluster, 2018 – 2019.
Supervisor, Media History Cluster, 2017 –2019. Co-convener (with Alejandra Bronfman), 2015 – 2016.
Member and Grant Writing Advisor, Graduate Committee, History Department, 2017 – 2018.
Member, Advisory Committee, History Department, 2017 – 2018.
Member, Search Committee, President’s Excellence Chair in Media Studies, 2017 – 2018.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, June 2012 – June 2015.
Oversaw Department’s senior thesis program, undergraduate advising, and student outreach programs. Assisted in formulating and implementing curricular needs, goals and standards. Created History Department Alumni Voices project in 2013 and led reform of senior honors criteria in 2015.
Member, History Board of Examiners and Curriculum Committee, June 2012 – June 2015.
Awarded undergraduate honors and helped with curricular planning for the History Department.
House Adviser, Dunster House, Harvard University, 2014 – 2015.
Advised history undergraduates, recruited undergraduates for history, and worked on fellowships.
Departmental Teaching Fellow, History Department, 2011 – 2012.
Led Department’s pedagogical training for graduate students.
President, Henry Adams History Graduate Student Society, Harvard University, 2008 – 2009.
Organized weekly student gatherings and represented graduate students to History Department.
Non-Resident Tutor, History/Fellowships, Lowell House, Harvard University, 2007 – 2009.
Advised undergraduates on curriculum and fellowship applications.
Council Member, Harvard Graduate Student Council, 2006 – 2007.
Represented the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Harvard-wide student affairs.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Editorial Roles
Associate Editor, Business History, January 2025 – present.
Co-Editor, Journal of Global History, April 2019 – present. Alongside editorial duties, created JGH social media (X handle: @GlobalHistJnl), launched in August 2019 and around 8,000 followers by August 2024. No. 1 journal in History by impact factor of 2020.
Co-Editor (with Ai Hisano, 2021 – 2025; with Jeff Fear, 2019 – 2021), Routledge International Studies in Business History series, April 2019 – 2025.
Editor, “Image of the Month,” United Nations History Project, October 2016 – 2018.
Book Review Editor, JHistory (H-Net listserv for journalism history), 2011 – 2014.
Administered and edited approximately 50 book reviews annually on journalism history.
Board Memberships
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Policy History, 2024 – present.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health, 2023 – present.
Member, Academic Advisory Board, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2022 – present.
Member, Steering Committee, German Historical Institute, Pacific Regional Office, Berkeley, 2021 – present.
Member, Executive Committee, Global Journalism Innovation Lab, 2021 – present.
Member, Editorial Board, Histories of Internationalism series, Bloomsbury Press, 2020 – present.
Member, Editorial Board, Global Connections: Roots and Routes, Leiden University Press, 2019 – present.
Advisory Board Member, A Seat at the Table: Australian Women in Global Governance, 2017 – present.
Professional Associations
Member, Nominating Committee, Business History Conference, 2025 – 2027.
Representative for Business History Conference, World Congress of Business History, 2023 – 2026.
Member, Steering Committee, Platform Governance Research Network Conference, April 2023 (online).
Program Committee Member, Business History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, March 2023.
Vice-President, Toynbee Prize Foundation, 2022 – present. (Trustee since 2021.)
Program Committee Member, Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Digital Conference and In-Person Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2022.
Trustee, Business History Conference, 2019 – 2022.
Member, Business History Conference Liaison Committee, 2018 – 2021. Chair, 2020 – 2021.
Member, German Studies Association Fundraising Committee, 2017 – present.
Prize Committee Memberships
Hagley Book Prize Committee, Business History Conference, 2023.
David Barclay Book Prize Committee, German Studies Association, 2022.
Toynbee Prize Committee, 2022. Prize awarded at American Historical Association, 2023.
Fritz Thyssen Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, German Historical Institute West, 2022 and 2023.
First Book Manuscript Workshop Prize Committee, Toynbee Prize Foundation, 2021 – 2022.
Rosenberg Book Prize Committee, Central European History Society, 2021.
Krooss Dissertation Prize Committee, Business History Conference, 2019 – 2022. Chair, 2020 – 2021. Interviewed about BHC service in Over the Counter, the BHC Newsletter, August 2021.
Peer Reviewing
Book Manuscripts: Bloomsbury Press; Cambridge University Press; Columbia University Press; Hart Publishing; Johns Hopkins University Press; Oxford University Press; Princeton University Press; Stanford University Press; University of Ottawa Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; University of Toronto Press.
Encyclopedias: Oxford University Press Bibliographies in Communication.
Journals: American Historical Review; Business and Politics; Business History; Business History Review; Central European History; Contemporary European History; Diplomatic History; Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society; Enterprise & Society; German History; Historical Journal; Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation; IEEE Technology & Society Magazine; International History Review; International Journal; International Journal of Communication; International Journal of Press/Politics; Internet Policy Review; Journalism: Theory, Criticism, Practice; Journal of British Studies; Journal of Communication in Healthcare; Journal of Contemporary History; Journal of Global History; Journal of the History of International Law; Journal of the History of Sexuality; Journal of Radio and Audio Media; Journal of World History; Media and Communication; Media History; RUSI Journal; Social Media and Society; Studies in Communication Sciences; Technology & Culture; The Historical Journal.
Foundations: Max Bell Foundation; National Academies of Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine; National Science Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation.
Fellowships and Research Grants: American Academy in Berlin; Mitacs Accelerate.
Conference Submissions: International Communication Association conference; International Conference on Social Media & Society (Program Committee Member); Global Platform Governance Research Network.
Tenure and Promotion
Tenure and Promotion File, Highly-Ranked Canadian Comprehensive University, 2022.
NON-ACADEMIC SERVICE
Board Member, Digital Action (international NGO based in Dublin and London), 2020 – present. Chairperson, Digital Action Board, 2021 – present.
Coalition Member, ScienceUpFirst/La ScienceD’Abord, 2021 – present.
Executive Board Member, Vancouver Oxford and Cambridge Society, 2017 – 2022.
Adviser, Critica, 2017 – present.
Executive Board Member, Canadian International Council, Vancouver Branch, 2017 – 2019.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Council on Foreign Relations 2018 – 2023
Society for the History of American Foreign Relations 2016 – present
International Communication Association 2014 – present
American Society for Legal History 2014 – present
Business History Conference 2012 – present
Central European History Society 2011 – present
Society for the History of Technology 2011 – present
International and Global History Seminar at Harvard University 2010 – 2015
German Studies Association 2009 – present
American Historical Association 2008 – present
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University 2008 – 2015
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
German (fluent), Polish (fluent), French (fluent reading, advanced speaking), Italian (reading knowledge), Spanish (reading knowledge), Latin (fluent reading), Russian (reading knowledge), Serbian/Croatian (reading knowledge), Czech (reading knowledge).