Dr. Michael Lenz

Curriculum Vitae

• 1997-2001 Student of Anglo-American History, Medieval and M o dern History and English at the University of Cologne

• 2001-2002 Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship

• 2002-2003 Student of Anglo-American History, Medieval and Modern History and English at the University of Cologne

• 2003 M.A. in Anglo-American History, Medieval and Modern History and English

• 2004- Ph.D. Student (supported by the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung and the Ph.D. scholarship program of the Land NRW)

• Summer Term 2004 Lecturer in Anglo-American History, History Department, University of Cologne

• 2004-2005 Kade-Heideking Fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, DC, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Winter Term 2005/06 Lecturer in Anglo-American History, History Department, University of Cologne

• Winter Term 2006/07 Lecturer in Anglo-American History, History Department, University of Cologne

• Winter Term 2007/08 Lecturer in the History of Modern Germany, Pennsylvania Colleges in Cologne

• December 2007 Dissertation Defense (Dissertation title: ‚"Arma sunt necessaria": Guns, Gun Culture and the Cultural Origins of the Second Amendment to the U.S: Constitution‘)

• April 2008-September 2008 Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), History Department, University of Cologne

• October 2008 - March 2010 Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), History Department, University of Heidelberg