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Dr. Barbara Hanke serves as Senior Academic Councillor at the Institute for History Didactics and Public History at the University of Tübingen, a position she has held since April 2020. She is scheduled to assume a professorship for History Didactics at the University of Osnabrück starting April 1, 2025. Prior to her current role, she held academic positions at the University of Vienna (2018-2020), Freiburg University of Education (2016-2020), and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2013-2015).
Dr. Hanke earned her doctoral degree in Modern and Contemporary History and German Philology from Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, where she also completed undergraduate studies in Modern and Contemporary History, Cultural Studies, and German Philology. Her academic journey includes research assistantships at the Chair of History Didactics and the Collaborative Research Center 496 "Symbolic Communication" at Münster University.
Her research focuses on how historical knowledge is constructed, transmitted, and received in educational settings and broader society. She examines the complex relationship between official history curricula, historical consciousness, and memory cultures across different educational contexts, with particular emphasis on German and Austrian comparative perspectives. Her work explores historical textbooks, public history institutions, and media representations of sensitive historical topics including the Holocaust and post-war German history.
Dr. Hanke's recent publications reveal a strong engagement with digital public history, historical memory in educational materials, and comparative studies of history education. Her 2024 monograph "Digital Public History" analyzes the tensions between academic research, public engagement, and entertainment in digital historical presentations, while her 2021 article "Erinnerungskulturen im Geschichtsunterricht" provides foundational analysis of memory cultures in history education.
- Digital Public History. Analytische Zugänge und Lernpotenziale digitaler Geschichte (2024)
- Erinnerungskulturen. Geschichte lernen 200 (2021)
- Wolfgang Jacobmeyer: Zeitgeschichte - Zeitverständnis. Gesammelte Aufsätze (2020)
- Zugänge zur deutschen Zeitgeschichte (1945-1970). Geschichte – Erinnerung – Unterricht (2017)
- Geschichtskultur an höheren Schulen von der Wilhelminischen Ära bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg (2011)
Dr. Hanke actively contributes to academic advising for history education students, with dedicated consultation hours for Bachelor and Master of Education candidates. She has significantly influenced history education curricula development, including examination regulations for the "Advanced Module IV: Historical Contexts" in the Master of Education program. Her current involvement in the SFB 923 "Threatened Orders" subproject examining how threatened social orders are analyzed both scientifically and in public discourse demonstrates her ongoing engagement with contemporary historical research challenges.
