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Juliane Tomann is a Junior Professor for Public History at the University of Regensburg, where she is affiliated with the Institute of History within the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts, History and Social Sciences. Since December 2021, she has held this position while also taking on significant leadership roles including membership in the management team of the Center for Remembrance Culture (since February 2022), serving as Principal Investigator of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (since August 2022), and assuming the role of Equal Opportunities Officer for the Graduate School (since July 2023). In 2024, she successfully completed both the interim evaluation of her junior professorship and her habilitation in public history and contemporary history.
Dr. Tomann's research focuses on performative practices in historical culture, historical reenactment across multiple national contexts (USA, Germany, and Poland), digital public history, gender in public history, post-industrial spaces and landscapes, and the contemporary history of Poland alongside cultural history of the GDR. Her work bridges academic history with public engagement, emphasizing how history is experienced, performed, and embodied in contemporary society.
Her scholarly output reveals a consistent trajectory examining how historical narratives are constructed and experienced through performative practices. The articles demonstrate a growing interest in gender dimensions of historical reenactment, digital approaches to historical representation, and the political dimensions of memory practices in post-socialist contexts. Her work increasingly intersects with digital humanities through explorations of virtual reality applications in historical culture.
- 2015 Polish Ambassador's Academic Award for doctoral thesis on historical culture in Katowice
Dr. Tomann has been instrumental in developing networks for public history scholarship, having coordinated the international Jean Monnet Network 'Applied European Contemporary History' and served as managing editor for the Cultures of History Forum. She has organized numerous conferences and workshops that bridge academic research with public engagement, including the Memory Studies Association Conference 'Beyond Crisis' (Prague, June 2025) and various workshops on historical reenactment, gender in historical practices, and nuclear heritage.
Her academic leadership extends to directing teacher training programs on historical remembrance and developing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding historical culture beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
