c u r r i c u l u m v i t a e

name: Junge, Kay

address: Im Lusti 29, 78224 Singen, Germany

born: 11th of January 1960, Lübbecke (Germany)

family: father of two children (Jacob Heinemann, born in 1993, and Katharina Heinemann, born in 1995)

education: 1966-1970 primary school in Dielingen, Drohne, and Haldem

1970-1972 Gymnasium Langeoog

1972-1979 Graf-Friedrich-Gymnasium Diepholz

1979 Abitur

practical training: August 1979 - May 1980 Foto Koltzenburg, Osnabrück

university education: 1980-1981 Physics, University of Osnabrück

1982-1983 Social Sciences, University of Osnabrück

1983-1984 Sociology, University of Bielefeld

1984-1985 Sociology, University of Hull (England)

1985-1987 Sociology, University of Bielefeld

academic grades: 19.10.1987

Diploma in Sociology graded "with excellence", University of Bielefeld

30.12.1993

Doctoral dissertation graded “summa cum laude”, Justus-Liebig-University (Gießen)

01.06.2005

Habilitation, University of Konstanz

academic positions: April 1988 - Dezember 1988 research assistant within the research-project “risk-transformation within the banking system” (Niklas Luhmann / Dirk Baecker), University of Bielefeld

1989-1997 research assistant, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen

1997-1999 research assistant, DFG research-project “Cultures of Memory” (Bernhard Giesen), Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen

since 1999 assistant professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz

since 2005 Akademischer Rat at the Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz

visiting positions: January 1992 - March 1992, Invitation to the Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

January 1995 - March 1995, Visiting scholar at the European University Institute, Florence

January 2003 - May 2003, Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Yale University

January 2005 - May 2005, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Yale University

April 2006 - March 2007, holding the chair of Professor Karl Otto Hondrich at the Faculty for Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M

April 2010 - September 2010, visiting chair at the Graduate School in History and Sociology at Bielefeld University

academic memberships: 2006 - 2008 member of the editoral board of “Sociological Theory”

since May 2009 Faculty Fellow, Department for Sociology, Yale University