Angelika Möller completed her doctorate in American history at LMU in 2014 and has been a lecturer and assistant professor at the Amerika Institut (LMU) since 2012. She served as a research associate at the RCC from 2009 to 2012 and was a visiting scholar at the RCC in 2015. Her monograph on the urban development of New York City in the antebellum era, Das andere New York: Friedhöfe, Freiräume und Vergnügungen, 1790–1860, was published in 2015.