Jana Hitziger

Curriculum

Jana Hitziger is a social science researcher specializing in (post-)apocalyptic futures, disaster preparedness, digital platforms, and qualitative methods of social research.
Since October 2025, she has been a doctoral researcher in the “Climate Futures in Digital Cultures” research area of the university-wide “Embracing Transformation” program at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she is also affiliated with the Center for Digital Cultures (CDC) and the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISCO).
In her doctoral thesis, provisionally titled “Anticipatory Technologies for Darker Futures – Ethnographic Explorations of Solidarity-Based Preparedness Technologies in Germany,” she examines how disaster preparedness is evolving in the Anthropocene, focusing on the entanglement of digital technologies, ecological crises, and social practices.
She is editor of the social and cultural science journal “Behemoth – A Journal on Social Dis/Order.”
Previously, she studied social sciences and philosophy at the University of Erfurt, sociology and social research at the University of Bremen, and criminology at the University of Hamburg with a scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
She worked as a research assistant at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability,” at the Chair of Sociology of Security and Resilience at the University of Hamburg, at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society in Jena, at the Chair of Practical Philosophy, and at the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Erfurt.