Johanna joined the C²DH in March 2020 as a Doctoral Researcher in the disciplines of historical transformation research, border studies and digital history.
She holds a Master’s degree in Education, History and English from the University of Hamburg, where she has been researching the concepts of identity, nationalism and fascism of modern Ukrainian history and politics, and acquired her background in teaching. At RWTH Aachen University, she finished her Bachelor of Arts in History and English, focusing on the perception of the German resistance group Red Orchestra in the newspaper Der Spiegel in 1969. From March 2022 to September 2023, she was a Europaeum Scholar and participated in a two-year training programme in European policy and leadership coordinated by the University of Oxford.
At the C²DH, she was doing digital and historical transformation research on mental maps from the Western Ukrainian border region.