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/ 
  • Department of Art History
    • 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.
    • 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 
  • Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
  • 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. 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/
  • Department of East European History
    • 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/ 

     

     

  • 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 
    • 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. 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/
    • 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 
    • 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 
  • Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology
  • Faculty Centre for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
    • 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/