Rhiannon Hein was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in History and English from the University of Alabama in 2018. An aspiring historian of modern Germany with particular interest in the nineteenth century and nationalism, she is now a third-year PhD student in the History Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is advised by Peter Fritzsche.