Jana Haack

• Historical identity Research (Research paradigm: Belonging)
• Media-Audience and -Reception Studies
• Holocaust education
• The Vatican and the Shoah
• Catholic Church and National Socialism

Academic Education

2016 – 2019

Studies of communication science (master) at Münster University

2013 – 2016

Studies of Communication Science (Bachelor) at Münster University

Positions

since 01.2025

Research assistant in the subproject "Belonging then and now" (financed by the Alfred Landecker Foundation)

since 02.2022

Research assistant in the project "Asking the Pope for Help" (financed by the EVZ)

2022 – 2025

Research assistant in the field of science communication and science management at the Seminar of Medieval and Modern Church History.

2019 – 2022

Trainee and science editor at the Communication and Public Relations Office of Münster University

2016 – 2019

Various positions as student assistant; among others: in the center for Media Practices of the Institute of Communication Science, with PD Dr. Thomas Birkner and Prof. Dr. Marcinkowski (research support)

Research Articles (Journals)

• Wolf, H., Haack, J., Hinkel, S., Richter, E.-M., Schepers, J. and Schüler, B., 2024. “I Think It Would Take Not 3,000, But 300,000 Visas!!”: New Questions and Perspectives on the Holy See’s Brazilian Visa Project Arising from the Opening of the Vatican Archives for the Pontificate of Pius XII: Antisemitism Studies, 8(1), pp. 63–116. doi: 10.2979/ast.00004.
• Wolf, H., Hinkel, S., Richter, E.-M., Haack, J. and Schüler, B., 2023. „Je dois mentionner que je suis Juif …“ Questions soulevées par l’édition critique en ligne des Archives du Vatican, concernant les requêtes de Juifs: Revue d'histoire de la Shoah, 218(2), pp. 179–201. doi: 10.3917/rhsho.218.0179.

Research Article (Book Contribution)

• Wolf, H., Haack, J., Hinkel, S., Richter, M.-E., Schepers, J. and Schüler, B., 2024. “Because the Jews are also prone to exaggeration” Or: Explanations for why Angelo Dell’Acqua’s appunto of 2 October 1942 was omitted from the “Actes et Documents”. in: U.-A. Simon and V. Nina eds. The Global Pontificate of Pius XII: War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958. Brooklyn: Berghahn Books. pp. 104–131. doi: 10.3167/9781805396086.

2025

• Wolf, Hubert; Schüler, Barbara; Haack, Jana; 2025: „Asking the Pope for Help – Letters from Jewish victims of persecution“. Szenische Lesung, Dalheim , May 18, 2025.

2024

• Wolf, Hubert; Haack, Jana; 2024: „‘Holy Father, save us!’ Petition from Jewish people to Pope Pius XII.“ Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Wolf , Münster , Oct 9, 2024.

2023

• Haack, Jana; Hinkel, Sascha; Kempe, Maik Henning; Richter, Elisabeth-Marie; Schepers, Judith; Schüler, Barbara; Wolf, Hubert 2023: „Holy Father, help us! Petitions of persecuted jews to Pope Pius XII“. Heiliger Vater, retten Sie uns! Die Bittschreiben verfolgter Juden an Papst Pius XII., Katholische Akademie in Bayern, München, Jan 23, 2023.

2022

• Haack, Jana; Hinkel, Sascha; Kempe, Maik Henning; Richter, Elisabeth-Marie; Schüler, Barbara; Wolf, Hubert 2022: “"Holy Father, help us!‘. Petitions by Jewish victims of the Holocaust kept in the Vatican Archives. An online edition”. Brownbaglunch (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), virtuell, Oct 20, 2022.

2018

• Wilhelm, Rebekka; Günzel, Matthias; Zemlicka, Tim; Ghavamzadeh, Shaghayegh; Reer, Felix; Quandt, Thorsten 2018: “Shaping attitudes towards sexual harassment: Testing the influences of highly immersive technology and perpetrator framing. ”. 7th European Communication Conference - Centres and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation, Lugano, Nov 2, 2018.