Staff member at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Master's program: Management of Social Change
Vita
2019-2025 Doctorate on “Fire and Firefighting in the 18th and 19th centuries, using the example of the Upper Lusatian towns of Bautzen, Görlitz and Löbau” in a cooperative procedure: Professor Dr. Susanne Rau (University of Erfurt), Professor Dr. Raj Kollmorgen (Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences)
Since 2016 she has been a member of the Master's program in Management of Social Change
2011-2017 research assistant at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in various cross-border education projects in cooperation with Polish, Czech, Israeli and Austrian partners at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the TRAWOS Institute and the Center for Knowledge and Technology Transfer (ZWT)
in 2002 she received her master's degree in history from the Technical University of Dresden with a thesis on the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences as an Enlightenment society
Teaching Focus Areas
Organizational research
Politics and statehood at the local and national levels
Internship supervision in the Master's program in Management of Social Change
Research Topics
Historical social pedagogy
History of education
History of Upper Lusatia
Children's rights
Project management
Lecturing Activities
June 4, 2025 Lecture “Firefighting without the fire department” at the university's senior citizens' college
November 16, 2024 Lecture “Changes to urban areas in the event of a fire” at the 2024 City Forum of the Society for Urban History and Urban Studies in Salzburg
November 9, 2024 Lecture “United in adversity (?). Support and assistance after fires in small towns in Upper Lusatia” at the autumn conference of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Königsbrück
November 1, 2024 Lecture “Historical perspectives on firefighting” as part of the “Atelier Stadt beziehungsweise Land” in Weimar
May 7, 2024 Lecture “Reading in the ashes. Insights into everyday life in the early modern period based on the holdings of the Bautzen Archive Network” as part of the Bautzen Archive Network's series of events
July 13, 2022 Lecture “Firefighting without a Fire Department” as part of the Regional History Colloquium by Professor Andreas Rutz, TU Dresden, Institute for History
September 17, 2021 Lecture "Organizing the Chaos. How firefighting was organized in the Towns of Bautzen, Görlitz and Löbau in the 17th and 18th centuries“ at the international conference ”Fire Management in the Early Modern Age: Knowledge, Technology and Economy," University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
In Addition
since 2024 Member of the Presidium of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences (based in Görlitz)
September 2023 Scholarship holder of the Dr.-Gregorius-Mättig Foundation Bautzen
2013-2019 Member of the board of the International Janusz Korczak Society (based in Warsaw)
since 2012 Member of the board of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz e.V. (based in Dresden)
