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Kristin Poling’s research interests are the social and cultural history of modern Europe, urban development and the history of modernism. Her dissertation examines the opening of the urban border in German cities, beginning with the removal of fortifications and walls, and continuing with battles over opening city gates, lifting border taxes and expanding municipal boundaries. The project uses local debates over city borders to investigate the relationship between the material experience of the city and changing notions of what it meant to be each urban, modern and German in the long nineteenth century. Kristin has served as a teaching fellow for courses on modern Germany, World War I, European intellectual history, and historical research methods.