Janina Abts received her BA from Freie Universität Berlin, where she studied history and political science. She spent a semester abroad at Tel Aviv University and interned at the humanitarian affairs department of the German Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Janina´s bachelor thesis analysed the colonial position of power of German women in German-Southwest-Africa. Besides colonialism and nationalism, she is interested in Middle Eastern and African history and the interconnections of political theory and history. She mainly focuses on the 19^th and 20^th century.

Janina chose the Global History program to broaden her knowledge of non-European history, as well as the different methodological approaches used to analyze the connectedness of historical developments.