Katja Wezel's research interests focus on 19th and 20th century Baltic history and transnational, comparative approaches to the study of memory politics and cultural conflicts in Eastern Europe. Professor Wezel studied History and English at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK) and the European University in St. Petersburg (Russia). From 2005 to 2008 she was a member of an interdisciplinary graduate research group on Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe at Heidelberg University, Germany. She received her PhD in 2011 for a thesis on memory politics in post-Soviet Latvia. She has worked as a research associate for the Department of East European History and as a lecturer in history at the University of Heidelberg. In 2013 she obtained a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professorship at the Department of History/University of Pittsburgh where she teaches courses on Nationalism, German History and Comparative European History.