Janine Wulz

Janine Wulz is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Victoria (Canada) and currently working on her interdisciplinary PhD in teacher education and Holocaust studies. Her work is focused on Holocaust Education, and she is interested in critical approaches towards education, policy making, historic-political education and language education.

Janine studied Political Science, Public Management and Education in Austria (University of Vienna, FH Campus Wien) and Poland (University of Warsaw). She became chair of the Austrian student’s union and served on European and national committees for higher education in the areas of student’s union, Bologna Process and quality assurance. Since 2014, she worked as a researcher, project manager and country expert at 3s in Vienna, with a focus on questions of equity and inclusion in education as well as internationalisation, adult and vocational education. She was working as a teacher for German as a foreign language and as a lecturer for diversity and disability studies (FH Kärnten).

Janine's PhD project builds on more than a decade of working in Holocaust Education as activist, guide and volunteer in museums as well as a trainer organising field schools and workshops at diverse Holocaust memorial sites in Europe, with a particular focus on Austrian memorial politics and partisan resistance movements. Within her interdisciplinary PhD, Janine is interested in how teachers are prepared for their work in Holocaust Education.