Claudia Lenz has a PhD in Political Science, from the University of Hamburg. Her research is in the fields of history cultures and didactics of history, focusing on social and political in- and exclusion and the conditions for active democratic citizenship. She has researched on how historical learning in intercultural settings can promote democratic competences and the inclusion of minorities in the democratic negotiation of past and present issues. 

She has worked at the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo dealing with issues of Human Rights education – especially related to processes of reconciliation and political transformation, which accompany the process of European integration in many member and aspirant states. She has conducted research in the context of international comparative projects. Networking on a national, Scandinavian and European level has been a relevant part of her work and has resulted in conferences, publications and research applications (latest within the European Commission’s FP7). She has experience as an educator in the field of adult education in Germany. Claudia Lenz starts at the EWC in August.