Scientific career
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn
| 1976 - 1983 | Study of History and French Language and Literature Studies at the Saarland University |
| 1978 - 1979 | Assistant for German in Bordeaux |
| 1983 and 1985 | First and second state examination for a secondary school teaching position |
| 1985 - 1987 | Doctoral thesis grant according to the Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz (National Law for the Promotion of Graduates) |
| since 1985 | Teaching occupation at schools, last time 1999 and 2000 |
| 1988 | Doctoral degree in Romance Studies at the Department of Philosophy of the Saarland University |
| 1991 - 1996 | Postgraduate assistant at the Chair of East European History of the Department of History of the Saarland University |
| 1996 - 1999 | Postdoctoral thesis grant of the German Research Foundation |
| 1999 | Postdoctoral degree at the Department of Philosophy of the Saarland University
venia legendi: Modern and Contemporary History |
| since October 2000 | University lecturer for Modern and Contemporary History and Didactics of History at the Department of History at the Saarland University, appointee to the German-French University programme for the German-French field of study and certificate of the universities of Saarland and Metz for a teaching position at schools with a bilingual programme |
| 2002 - 2003 | Deputy professor of History and its Didactics at the PH Karlsruhe |
| 2003 | Guest professor at the University of Vienna |
| 2005 - 2006 | Deputy professor of General History with special attention on the History of Gender at the University of Bielefeld |
| 22. July 2005 | Awarded the title außerplanmäßige Professorin (honorary title) by the Saarland University |
| February 2006 | Approval of the equivalent to postdoctoral degree (Habilitationsäquivalenz) by the National University Council (Conseil National des Universités) in France and admittance to the "liste de qualification aux fonctions de professeur des universités" |
| SuSe 2007 | Deputy professor of Didactics of History at the University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2007 - 2009 | Professor of Didactics of History at the University of Duisburg-Essen |
| as of April 2009 | Professor of Didactics of History, Contemporary History at the University of Siegen |