Education

2026 Visiting PhD Student, Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS), Uppsala University 

2023-2025 Master of Arts in North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2021-2023 Master of Philosophy in Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford

2018-2021 Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges, Leiden University

Grants and Scholarships

2026 Doctoral Scholarship, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (from October 2026)

2026 Visiting Grant, Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS), Uppsala University

2025 Doctoral Scholarship, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin 

Research interests

• Religion and politics
• Labor movements and unionization
• American conservatism 
• Evangelical studies 

PhD Project

“Unions, Labor, and the Bible: Evangelicalism and the Politics of Industry in the U.S. South”             

In my dissertation I investigate how evangelical Christianity shapes labor politics in the Southern states of the U.S., with a case study focus on South Carolina. The United States has unionization rates significantly lower than other Western economies, and never developed a political labor movement comparable to its European counterparts. There are many factors that contributed to this development, but there is no scholarly consensus on a definite cause. Earlier studies find an interesting correlation: low union density is associated with high church attendance. My project analyzes this correlation further by focusing on the interaction between evangelicalism and labor politics in South Carolina, the state with the lowest levels of unionization in the country.  In doing so, the thesis sheds light on the politics of evangelicalism in a region undergoing fast industrial growth. The project speaks to discussions regarding the historical connections between evangelicalism and corporate capitalism, while remaining sensitive to the possibility of grassroots working class mobilization. 

Mentoring team:

First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Lammert
Second supervisor: N.N.
Third supervisor: N.N.