Nina Huwer obtained her master’s degree in History and Politics of the Twentieth Century at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Prior to this, she completed her bachelor’s degree in German Studies and History at the University of Bremen. She was also a member of the Honours-Programme for future researchers at FSU Jena (Year 2024). Her academic work focuses on contemporary history, the history of everyday life, and social and cultural history of the economy, with particular interests in the 1970s, the analysis of ego-documents, subjective experiences of crises and economic self-narratives.
In her project, Nina examines how individuals experienced and interpreted crises in the 1970s. Drawing on diaries from West Germany and France, she analyzes how property, money, housing, and economic insecurity were negotiated in everyday self-narratives, and how people understood themselves as economic subjects within a changing political economy.
