This strand of my work follows the circulation of ideas between Britain and German-speaking Central Europe, especially among historians and political thinkers active in the Victorian period.
A central question is how “Teutonic” identity was formulated, contested, and linked to wider stories of civilizational development. I am particularly interested in the way race and national culture became part of scholarly language that still shapes historical narratives today.
Recent outputs include studies on racial liberalism, migration discourse, and the afterlife of nineteenth-century ethnological concepts.