Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
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Department of Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Kruschwitz, M.A.
Research Focus:
Roman cultural history (with especial emphasis on musical and poetic forms of expression); Roman epigraphy (especially Carmina Latina Epigraphica and wall inscriptions/graffiti); cultural practice of Roman non-elites; theatre and mass entertainment in the Roman empire; linguistic history as history of mentality.
More information can be found at
https://altegeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitglieder/mitarbeiterinnen/kruschwitz/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Kruschwitz, M.A.
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Department of Art History
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Hindriks
Research Focus:
Northern Renaissance Art, Theories of the image and visual perception in the late Middle Ages and early modern period
More information can be found at:
https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/staff/professors/hindriks-sandra/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lukas Nickel
Research Focus:
Applications on the Art history of East Asia and especially China will be considered. My research foci are the history of pre-modern interaction between East Asia and wider Eurasia, Buddhist art history, and the history of technology in East Asia. Current projects include The First Empire of China in the Asian context, the Arts of the Northern Wei, and the reception of East Asian art in early modern Central Europe.
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Raphael Rosenberg
Research Focus:
Italian Renaissance art,
Nineteenth-century art in France,
History of abstraction,
History of art literature and art reception,
Cognitive research in art history
More information can be found at:
http://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/professors/rosenberg-raphael/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schütze
Research Focus:
Art and Art Theory in Early Modern Italy
Art Patronage in Papal Rome
Caravaggio and Caravaggism in Europe
Neapolitan Painting
History of Collecting and Provenance Research
Word & Image Studies
More Information can be found at:
http://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/sebastian-schuetze/
- Uni.-Prof. Lucia Simonato PhD
Research Focus
1) Materiality, history of sculpture, history of artistic techniques
2) Renaissance and Baroque art literature and theory
3) Art patronage in the early modern period (especially in Italy)
4) Reception and study of Baroque art in the 19th and 20th centuries
More information can be found at
n/a
lucia.simonato@univie.ac.at
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Hindriks
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Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Rapp
Research Focus
Cultural and intellectual history / social and religious history / Ritual and communication / Written culture / Late Antiquity
More information can be found at
https://www.byzneo.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/akademisches-personal/rapp-claudia/ & https://www.oeaw.ac.at/m/rapp-claudia
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Rapp
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Department of Classical Archaeology
- Prof. Basema Hamarneh, PhD
Research Focus
Research focuses on urban and rural settlements in the Late Antique and Early Christian periods (4th to the 9th centuries); with themes ranging from the Christianisation of Roman Castra; visual and material culture of the Late antique, Early Christian/Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East; Mosaics; Early Christian monuments of Rome and broadly of the Orbis Christianus Antiquus; Monastic and religious identities; hagiography as source to investigate topographic studies. Prof. Hamarneh lead an archaeological excavation in central Jordan and a an FWF project on “Periphery in Late Antiquity”.
More information can be found at:
https://klass-archaeologie.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/institutsmitarbeiterinnen/hamarneh-basema/
- Prof. Basema Hamarneh, PhD
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Department of Contemporary History
- Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Regina Fritz-Klinger
Research Focus
History of Dictatorship and Violence, Holocaust Studies, History of Nazi Concentration Camps Contemporary Hungarian and Austrian History, History of the Carpatho-Ukraine History of the Interwar Period Politics of History and Cultures of Remembrance Theory of History, Oral History, Musealisation
More information can be found at
https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/academic-staff/regina-fritz/
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valeska Huber
Research Focus:
Global History, International History, History of Migration and Mobility, History of Health and Disease Control, Global(izing) Publics, History of Education, History of Literacy, History of Language
More information can be found at:
Valeska Huber (univie.ac.at)
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Claudia Kraft
Research Focus:
The history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century,
Women's and Gender History,
Politics of History and Cultures of Remembrance,
History of Forced Migration,
History of State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II,
transnational legal history in the first half of the 20th century,
More information can be found at:
http://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/
- Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Regina Fritz-Klinger
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Department of East European History
- Prof. Dr Kerstin S. Jobst
Research Focus
East European History
More information can be found at:
https://iog.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personal/professorinnen/kerstin-susanne-jobst/
- Ass.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Börries Kuzmany
Research Focus
Kuzmany focuses on Central and Eastern Europe from the late 18th to the 20th Century, the Habsburg Empire, Poland, Ukraine and the Soviet Union in particular. He is interested in the history of nationalism, ethno-confessional diversity, borders, and languages, as well as in urban and Jewish history. Between 2018 and 2023 he was the principal investigator of the ERC funded project “Non-Territorial Autonomy as Minority Protection in Europe.” Since 2023, he is the leader of the international research group “History of National Diversity”.
More information can be found at:
https://iog.univie.ac.at/
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/boerries.kuzmany/en/
https://hind.univie.ac.at/en/
- Prof. Dr Kerstin S. Jobst
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Department of Economic and Social History
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Margareth Lanzinger, Privatdoz.
Research Focus
Margareth Lanzinger is Professor of Social and Economic History from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. She is actively involved in numerous international networks and research contexts. Her main Research interests are in social history, including the social history of local and regional as well as state administration, historical anthropology and microhistory. She has worked extensively on property issues, marriage and kinship, as well as on transitional legal spaces and on the importance of social space constituted through communication, interaction and actor networks. In spring 2024, the ERC Advanced Grant ALPINNKONNECT on the topic “Agents of logistics and infrastructure in eighteenth-century Alpine transit traffic”, which she submitted as PI, was approved.
More information can be found at
https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/lanzinger-margareth/
- Univ. Prof. Dr. Clemens Jobst
Research Focus
Financial history Economic history of Austria Economic history of the Habsburg Empire
More information can be found at
n/a
clemens.jobst@univie.ac.at
- Federico D'Onofrio, PhD
Research Focus
History of agriculture, history of quantification, history of economic thought
More information can be found at
datarev.univie.ac.at/team/core-team/federico-donofriopi/
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juliane Schiel
Research Focus
history of slavery in Venice and the wider Mediterranean world, the history of work in a trans-regional and long-term comparative perspective, power relations and social inequalities in premodern Europe, social, economic and cultural entanglements between Europe and Asia, postcolonial critics and global history debates
More information can be found at
https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/schiel-juliane/
- Kirsten Wandschneider
Research Focus
Financial History, Europe, 20th century
More information can be found at
https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/menschen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/wandschneider-kirsten/
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Margareth Lanzinger, Privatdoz.
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Department of History
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tara Andrews
Research Focus:
Tara Andrews is University Professor of Digital Humanities at the Institute for History. Her fields of expertise include the history and historiography of the Christian Near East in the tenth to twelfth centuries, the application of computational and statistical methods for reconstruction of the copying history of ancient and medieval manuscripts (stemmatology), and reflection on the implications of employing digital media and computational methods in humanities contexts.
- Univ. Prof. Dott. Ric. Elena Bacchin
Research Focus
European history, transnational history, political and cultural history, 19th-20th centuries
More information can be found at
elena.bacchin@univie.ac.at - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Becker
Research Focus:
History of State and Governance
History of Institutions (esp. Public Administration)
History of Scientific and Administrative Practices
History of Police and Criminology
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Echterhölter
Research Focus
history of science (18th and 19th century) historical-political epistemology, epistemic decolonisation history of quantification and modern data technologies colonialism, measurement and quantification (Oceania) technologies of money, multiplicities of money, paranumismatics history of the auxiliary sciences and historical methods (metrology, chronology)
More information can be found at
https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/anna-echterhoelter/
- Ass.-Prof. Sebastian Felten, PhD
Research Focus
Early Modern History History of Science Economic History History of Bureaucratic Knowledge Earth Sciences Mining Ressources Sustainability
More information can be found at
https://ifg.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/academic-staff/sebastian-felten/
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Nils Güttler
Research Focus:
19th and 20th century history of science and technology, environmental history, history of media, history of social movements
More information can be found at
https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/nils-guettler/
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christina Lutter
Research Focus
Medieval and early modern cultural and gender history, especially religious reform movements in high and late medieval Central Europe; entangled medieval monastic, urban, and court cultures; medieval visions and practices of community; medieval and early modern representations of emotions Cultural Studies; Gender Studies
More information can be found at
https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/wissenschaftliche-angehoerige-institut-geschichte/lutter-christina/ - Univ.-Prof. Jonathan Lyon, PhD
Research Focus
Medieval European political and social history (ca. 1000-1500); history of the medieval Holy Roman Empire; history of medieval state-building and corruption; medieval family history.
More information can be found at
jonathan.lyon@univie.ac.at
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Tim Neu
Research Focus:
History of Democracy, Early Modern History, Modern History, Constitutional History, German History, Global History, History of the British Empire, History of Finance, Monetary History, Theories and Methods of History
More information can be found at
https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/tim-neu/
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Roehrlich
Research Focus:
History of international organizations; history of the cold war and the nuclear age; contemporary Austrian history
More information can be found at
https://ifg.univie.ac.at/elisabeth-roehrlich
- Ass.-Prof. Maria Vargha MA MA PhD
Research Focus
Social and religious history and archaeology of the Middle Ages (9th-15th centuries), especially but not limited to Central and Central Eastern Europe. Besides medieval history and archaeology, my main research focus is the geospatial modelling and geostatistical analysis of historical processes.
More information can be found at
https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/maria-vargha/
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tara Andrews
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Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Philip R. Nigst
Research Focus
Palaeolithic archaeology, Mesolithic archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Lithic Technology, human behavioural ecology
More information can be found at
https://uha.univie.ac.at/en/staff-members/staff-members/scientific-staff-members/philip-nigst/
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Research Focus
Prehistoric Archaeology
More information can be found at
https://uha.univie.ac.at/en/staff-members/staff-members/university-professors/katharina-rebay-salisbury/
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Philip R. Nigst
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Faculty Centre for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marko Demantowsky
Research Focus
Public History studies and a digitally based ethnology and history of Austrian places of remembrance of national relevance
More information can be found at
https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/demantowsky-marko/
- Univ. Prof. Dr. Dietlind Hüchtker
Research Focus
Specific foci: Modern and Contemporary History of Central and Eastern Europe/Space and Transregionality/History of Science and Knowledge/Rural Studies/Gender History/Transdiciplinarity/History of Knowledge/History of Sciences
More information can be found at
https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marko Demantowsky