Jana Lena Jünger, M.A., M.A.

Research Assistant

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 03/2026 Project Director for “Stories in the REVIER: Research, Explore, Understand, Inform, Remember, Reflect” (independently secured from the German Coal and Post-Mining Industry Association; duration: 4 years)

• Since 04/2025 Project Director for “AKTIV: Coming to Terms with the Consequences of Mining in the Ruhr Region” (external funding project, independently secured from the Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching, in collaboration with Stefan Zeppenfeld; duration: 2 years)

• 05/2025 Master of Arts Public History & Master of Arts History at the Ruhr University Bochum

• 04/2024-03/2025 Research assistant in the externally funded project forschendes Lernen mit Oral History (FLOH) at the Ruhr University Bochum (until 08/2024: Jun. Prof. Dr. Juliane Czierpka, since 09/2024: Prof. Dr. Christian Bunnenberg)
• 10/2022-03/2024 Research assistant in the third-party funded project Forschendes Lernen mit Oral History in der Geschichtswissenschaft (FLOH) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (until 08/2024: Jun.-Prof. Dr Juliane Czierpka, since 09/2024: Prof. Dr Christian Bunnenberg)
• 10/2021 to 02/2023 Research assistant at the Institute for Social Movement at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Prof. Dr Stefan Berger)
• 04/2021 to 04/2025 Studies of Public History (1-subject Master of Arts) and History (1-subject Master of Arts)
• 10/2020 to 09/2022 First student assistant, then research assistant at the Centre for Science Didactics in the field of eLearning (eTeam Digitalisation) at the Ruhr University Bochum
• 05/2020 to 03/2024 Mentor for the tutors of the Department of History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• 07/2019 to 09/2023 Member of the Student Council of the History Department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• 04/2019 to 04/2020 Tutor at the Historical Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum
• 10/2016 to 03/2021 Studies of History and Educational Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum (2-subject Bachelor of Arts)
• 10/2015 to 09/2016 Studied law at the Ruhr University Bochum 
• 06/2015 General higher education entrance quialification at Anne Frank Gesamtschule Moers
• 11/2014 bis 12/2021 Temporary assistant, then working student (from 10/2015) at the Grafschafter Museum in Moers Castle

Research focuses

• Public history
• Economic, corporate, social and environmental history of post-industrial regions
• Industrial culture of remembrance
• History of the Ruhr region
• Oral history
• Migration history