Curriculum Vitae

• since 2021 Professor (W3) for Didactics of History and Public History at the Ruhr-University Bochum
• 2021 and 2022 Calls to the University of Augsburg, the Technical University of Dresden and the Universities of Education in Heidelberg and Freiburg
• since 2020 Co-Director of 'Public History Weekly - the open peer review journal', previously deputy editor-in-chief (since 2018)
• 2016 to 2021 Assistant Professor (W1) for History Education at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2019 positive evaluation, 2021 opening of a career-track-procedure
• 2016 Completion of doctorate at the University of Cologne
• 2014 to 2016 Academic Councillor in the department "History and its Didactics" at the Heidelberg University of Education
• 2011 to 2014 Research assistant at the Chair of History Didactics at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• 2009 to 2011 Lecturer in the field of History Didactics at the University of Cologne
• 2008 to 2009 Grammar school teacher
• 2008 Second State Examination
• 2006 to 2008 Preparatory service for the teaching profession at grammar and comprehensive schools  at the Studienseminar Hamm and the Landschulheim Schloss Heessen
• 2005 First state examination and Magister Artium
• 2000 to 2005 Teacher training with the subjects History and German as well as magister studies with the subjects Modern and Contemporary History/Medieval History/German Philology at the University of Münster

Research focuses  

• History in immersive media (augmented reality, virtual reality, 360° film) in historical culture and history teaching
• Historical learning under digital conditions
• Public history
• History of the 19th and 20th century (current: history of tourism, history of the "unification wars")

Memberships and Committees

• Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik. Verband der Geschichtsdidaktikerinnen und Geschichtsdidaktiker Deutschlands e.V. (KGD), there: Arbeitskreis "Digitaler Wandel und Geschichtsdidaktik"
• Verband der Geschichtslehrer Deutschlands e.V.
• Open History e.V.
• Member of the federal and state jury "NRW-Süd" for the Federal President's History Competition, Körber Stiftung Hamburg
• Production Advisory Board at the LWL-Medienzentrum for Westphalia

Recent Publications

• An der Schwelle zur Moderne. Der Krieg von 1870/71. (= Historische Bildung und Public History, Band 2). Göttingen 2025. (Edited by Tobias Arand, Frank Becker, Christian Bunnenberg)
• Kommunale Archive und Geschichtsunterricht - geschichtsdidaktische Perspektiven auf lokal- und regionalgeschichtliches historisches Lernen "vor Ort", in: Bildungspartner NRW (Hrsg.): Aufbruch im nördlichen Ruhrgebiet 1870 bis 1914 - exemplarische Quellen aus kommunalen Archiven des Kreises Recklinghausen. Düsseldorf 2022, S. 10-19.
• SocialMediaHistory. Geschichtemachen in sozialen Medien, in: Historische Anthropologie. Kultur - Gesellschaft - Alltag, Thema: Soziale Medien, 2 (2021) 29, S. 267-283. (with Thorsten Logge, Nils Steffen)
• Klein, Karl: Die Fröschweiler Chronik. Kriegs- und Friedensbilder aus dem Jahr 1870. Edited by Tobias Arand and Christian Bunnenberg. Hamburg 2021.
• Das Ende der historischen Imagination? Geschichte in immersiven digitalen Medien (Virtual Reality und 360°-Film), in: Deile, Lars/Riedel, Peter/van Norden, Jörg (Ed.): Brennpunkte heutigen Geschichtsunterrichts. Frankfurt a.M. 2021, S. 174-179.
• Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik. Themenheft: Bewegte Bilder (2020) 19. (Editor)