Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
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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/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/professoreninnen/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. Magdalena Nieslony
Research Focus:
• Modern and contemporary art, especially Eastern European art
• new media in the modern and contemporary era
• art and ethics / art and politics in contemporary aesthetic discourse
• art in the consumer society
• artistic reflection of visual perception
• relationship between theoretical and visual practice in artistic work
More information can be found at
https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/professors/nieslony-magdalena/
- Univ.-Prof. Markus Ritter
Research Focus:
History of Islamic Art and Architecture. in particular in Western Asia, Iran, Turkey, the Levant (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt) and the Mediterranean in the medieval and early modern periods; Islamic Book Painting, Persian Art and Architecture
More information can be found at:
https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/professors/ritter-markus/
- 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:
https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/
- 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/
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/
Department of Contemporary History
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Valeska Huber
Research Focus:
Global History, International History, History of Migration and Mobility, History of Communication
More information can be found at:
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- 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/
Department of East European History
- Prof. Dr Kerstin S. Jobst
Research Focus
East European History, Cultural history, Gender, History of Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Crimea, Caucasus
More information can be found at:
https://iog.univie.ac.at/ksjobst
- 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. Since 2018 he has been the principal investigator of the ERC funded project “Non-Territorial Autonomy as Minority Protection in Europe.
More information can be found at:
iog.univie.ac.at and https://homepage.univie.ac.at/boerries.kuzmany/en/
Department of Economic and Social History
- 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/
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. 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
- 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/
- 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/
- Ass.-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
Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology
- Associate Prof. Mag. Dr. Marta Luciani
Research Focus
Archaeology and History of Western Asia (Mesopotamia, Syria, Levant) and the Arabian Peninsula
More information can be found at
https://uha.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/marta-luciani/
- 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/
Faculty Centre for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marko Demantowsky
Research Focus
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
More information can be found at
https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/