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