Department of Contemporary History

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Education and Work Experience

• Free University Berlin, University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt; History, German Literature, Philosophy, Art History; MA (Vienna) 1999, PhD (Klagenfurt) 2002, Habilitation (Vienna) 2009
• 1999/2000 Project researcher, Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria
• Visiting scholar and fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies IFK (Vienna), Institute for Human Sciences IWM (Vienna), Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC), Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• 2017 Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor, Stanford University
• since 2007 Lecturer/since 2009 Senior Lecturer, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna
• since March 2009 Assistant Professor, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck; since September 2013 Associate Professor, since March 2015 Full Professor
  

Fields of Research and Teaching

Austrian, German, and European Contemporary History; Holocaust and Jewish Studies; Intellectual History; History of Science; Cultural Studies; Transnational History; Migration History; Museology; Theory and Methods of Historiography

Professional Services

• since March 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Innsbruck
• from October 2010 to March 2018 Head, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
• Academic Senate, University of Innsbruck (2016-2019)
• Speaker, Doctoral Program "Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalization", University of Innsbruck
• Coordinator, Research Centre "Migration & Globalization", University of Innsbruck
• Advisory Board, Research Focus "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts", University of Innsbruck
• Corresponding Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, European Forum Alpbach (2019-2022)
• Head, Working Group "Migration", House of Austrian History, Vienna
  
• International Academic Advisory Board, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies VWI
• Advisory Board, House of Austrian History, Vienna
• Speaker, Advisory Board, Documentation Archive Migration Tyrol, Innsbruck
• Advisory Board, Diversity Archives Vorarlberg, Dornbirn
• Advisory Board "Memory Culture", State of Tyrol
• Advisory Board "Historical Research on Institutional Care in the Second Republic", State of Tyrol
• Editorial Board, "zeitgeschichte", Vienna
• Grant Selection Committee, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2015/16 Academic Advisor, Project "Collecting Migration", Vienna City Museum
• 2014-17 Co-Director, "Labor Migration in South Tyrol after the 2nd Autonomy Statute"
• 2014-16 Co-Director, "Historical Learning with video testimonies from Holocaust survivors (pilot study)"
• 2014-16 Co-Director, "The Children Monitoring Station of Maria Nowak-Vogl. Interdisciplinary Approaches"
• 2012-17 Director, FWF Project "Deprovincializing Contemporary Austrian History"
• 2012-14 Director, BMWF/"Sparkling Science" Project "Seeking Traces: Hall in Motion"
• 2009-11 Director, BMWF/"Sparkling Science" Project "Transnational Perceptions of History" (with Büro trafo.K, Vienna)

 

Honors, Awards & Fellowships

• 2011 Humanities International – translation award, granted by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association
• 2010 Sponsorship award for rising young academics of the state of Tyrol, Austria
• 2009 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Wiener Library, London
• 2004-07 APART grant, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2004 and 2010 Charles H. Revson Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
• 2000/01 Junior Fellowship, International Research Center for Cultural Studies IFK, Vienna

Memberships

• Junge Kurie, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008-2016)
• Society for the History of Science GWG
• German Studies Association GSA
• American Historical Association AHA
• Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America ASCINA 

Selected Publications

• with Martin Kapferer, Mathias Moosbrugger (Hrsg.), Ein Jahrhundert Reinhold Stecher. Kontexte - Einordnungen - Erinnerungen (notae - Historische Notizen zur Diözese Innsbruck - Sonderband 7), Innsbruck 2024
• with Karl Berger, Christoph Haidacher, Lukas Morscher, Ulrich Nachbaur, Gustav Pfeifer, Ingo Schneider, Oswald Überegger, Melanie Wiener (Hrsg.), Vom Wert des Erinnerns. Wissenschaftliche Projekte der Förderperiode 2019 bis 2023, Innsbruck 2024
• with Eva Pfanzelter, Èva Kovàcs, Marianne Windsperger (Hrsg.), Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space, Berlin 2024
• with Ina Friedmann (Hrsg.), Zwangssterilisierungen und „freiwillige Entmannungen“ in Tirol und Vorarlberg 1938–1945 (Veröffentlichungen des Innsbrucker Stadtarchivs N.F. 77), Innsbruck 2024
• with Ingrid Böhler, Karin Harrasser, Monika Sommer, Hilde Strobel (Hrsg.), Ver/störende Orte. Zum Umgang mit NS-kontaminierten Gebäuden, Wien – Berlin 2024
• with Marc Landry (Hrsg.), COVID-19 and Pandemics in Austrian Hisory (Contemporary Austrian Studies 32), New Orleans – Innsbruck 2023 
• with Richard Hufschmied, Karin Liebhart, Monika Sommer (Hrsg.), ErinnerungsOrte weiter denken. In memoriam Heidemarie Uhl, Wien – Köln 2023
• with mit Marcus Gräser, Österreichische Zeitgeschichte - Zeitgeschichte in Österreich. Eine Standortbestimmung in Zeiten des Umbruchs (Böhlaus Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek Bd. 41), Wien-Köln 2021
• with mit Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum und Michaela Ralser (Hrsg.), Psychiatrisierte Kindheiten: Die Innsbrucker Kinderbeobachtungsstation von Maria Nowak-Vogl, Innsbruck 2020
  

 

Detailed curriculum Vitae (including publications)
Current Research Projects
Research Performance Documentation database (FLD).