Clemens Jobst, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Speaker of the key research area
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Money, monetary policy and central banks; financial markets and financial institutions; economic history of the Habsburg monarchy; international currencies; quantitative and econometric methods
Publications (selection):
- Ein langer Preisindex für Österreich, 1800–2016. Mit Gerald Hubmann und Michaela Maier. Monetary Policy & Economy. Im Erscheinen.
- Die Bank. Das Geld. Der Staat. Währungspolitik in Österreich 1816–2016. Mit Hans Kernbauer. Frankfurt: Campus, 2016.
- The institutional foundations of successful public borrowing – Models of public banks in Habsburg Austria and Habsburg Naples 1700–1800, in: Larry Neal und Lilia Costabile (Hrsg.), A comparative perspective on the public banks of Naples (1462–1808). Palgrave, 2018.
- The Coevolution of Money Markets and Monetary Policy, 1815–2008. Mit Stefano Ugolini, in: Michael Bordo et al. (Hrsg.), Central Banks at a Crossroads. What Can We Learn from History? Cambridge, 2016.
- The Empirics of International Currencies: Networks, History and Persistence. Mit Marc Flandreau. The Economic Journal 119 (April), 2009.
e-Mail: clemens.jobst@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/jobst-clemens/
Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
2. Speaker of the key research area
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: cultural studies urban research (ethnography of a medium-sized town and of Vienna); regional ethnography; biographical and narrative research; migration and ethnicity; popular culture research
Publications (selection):
- Peter Becker/Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber (Hg.): Wir waren Triumph. Erinnerungen einer Region. Berndorf: Kral Verlag 2020
- Anna Eckert, Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber u. Georg Wolfmayr, Aushandlungen städtischer GrößeMittelstadt leben, erzählen, vermarkten (= Ethnographie des Alltags Bd. 6). Wien u.a.: Böhlau 2020
- Housing and Housing Politics in European Metropolises, Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2017/2018, hg. von R. Wehrhahn, J. Pohlan, C. Hannemann, F. Othengrafen u. B. Schmidt-Lauber. Springer Verlag 2019
- Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber (Hg.), Universität und Stadt: Campus Altes AKH Wien. Weitra: Bibliothek der Provinz 2017
- Lukasz Nieradzik u. Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, Tiere nutzen: Ökonomien tierischer Produktion in der Moderne. Wien u.a.: Studien Verlag 2016
- Reflexive Innenansichten aus der Universität. Disziplinengeschichten zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik (= 650 Jahre Universität Wien – Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert – Fragen und Perspektiven, Bd. 4). Hrsg. gemeinsam mit Karl Anton Fröschl, Gerd Müller, Thomas Olechowski. 2015.
Darin: Reflexive Innensichten aus der Universität - eine Einleitung, gemeinsam mit Karl Anton Fröschl, Gerd Müller, Thomas Olechowski S. 15-20.
Und: Europäische Ethnologie an der Universität - Zur Entwicklung einer empirischen Kulturwissenschaft im (hochschul-)politischen Kontext, gemeinsam mit Herbert Nikitsch S. 371-384. - Hanuschgasse 3. 50 Jahre Institut für Europäische Ethnologie (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie, 38). Hrsg. gemeinsam mit Herbert Nikitsch. Wien 2015.
Darin: Hanuschgasse 3: Ausblicke - Einblicke - Überblicke. Eine Art Einleitung, S. 13-18.
Und: Lehre der Europäischen Ethnologie an der Universität Wien, S. 41-51.
Und: Ansichten eines Portiers. Ein Besuch im Foyer des Hanuschhofs, S. 287-292. - Sommer_frische. Bilder.Orte.Praktiken (= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie, 37). Hrsg. Wien 2014.
Darin: Sommerfrische reloaded. Perspektiven und Zugänge eines Studienprojekts, S. 9-31. - Wiener Urbanitäten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansichten einer Stadt (= Ethnographie des Alltags, 1). Hrsg. gemeinsam mit Ana Ionescu, Klara Löffler, Jens Wietschorke. Köln/Weimar/Wien 2013.
Darin: Zur Ethnographie der Sponsion an der Universität Wien. Deutungsangebote zu einem akademischen Ritual der Macht.
Und: Writing City. Vorüberlegungen zu den „Wiener Urbanitäten“. - Kulturen des Ökonomischen (= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie, 36). Hrsg. gemeinsam mit Franz Eder, Oliver Kühschelm, Philipp Ther, Claudia Theune. Wien 2013.
Darin: Kulturen des Ökonomischen. Kontexte und Inhalte, S. 7-17. - Mittelstadtmarketing. Zur Produktion und Vermarktung einer Stadt als Ort (gemeinsam mit Anna Eckert und Georg Wolfmayr). In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde Band 117, 2014, S. 3-27.
e-Mail: brigitta.schmidt-lauber@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/reseachers/brigitta-schmidt-lauber/
Michael Adelsberger, BA BSc MA
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Economic and social history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, history of prices and wages, historical economic growth, Little Divergence
e-Mail: michael.adelsberger@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/andretsch-florian/
Florian Andretsch, BA MA
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: History of kinship and family, inheritance and succession systems, social history of European elites, history of the Habsburg monarchy, labour and pensions
e-Mail: florian.andretsch@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/menschen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/andretschflorian/
Rolf Bauer, Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Indian agricultural history in the long 19th century; Drugs & Empire; famines
e-Mail: rolf.bauer@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/bauer-rolf/
Thomas Buchner, Mag. Dr.
Amstetten City Archives
Former research associate on the project ‘The Production of Work’ at the Department of Economic and Social History (Director: Sigrid Wadauer)
Research fields: Work, labour markets and employment services (19th and 20th centuries); crafts and guilds (16th-18th centuries)
e-Mail: thomas.buchner@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://pow.univie.ac.at/
Maria Stella Chiaruttini, PhD
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Financial markets and financial institutions; fiscal policy; economic integration; economic elites; nationalism; regionalism; European history
e-Mail: maria.chiaruttini@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/chiaruttini-maria-stella/
Matthias Donabaum, MPhil
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Economic and social history of the early modern period; kinship, family and marriage; wealth, transfer of property and inheritance practices; history of consumption and material culture; quantitative methods
e-Mail: matthias.donabaum@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/donabaum-matthias/ and https://kinshipspaces.univie.ac.at/
Federico D'Onofrio, Ass.-Prof. PhD
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: agricultural history, history of quantification
e-Mail: federico.donofrio@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/donofrio-federico/
Franz X. Eder, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: family; organisation of labour; consumption; sexuality; gender history; new media; historical discourse analysis
e-Mail: franz.eder@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/emeriti-retired/eder-franz-x/
Peter Eigner, ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: urban development and urban economy in Vienna from the 18th to the 20th century; industrialisation in Europe; banking and industrial history; economy and society in the Habsburg monarchy and in Austria (19th and 20th century)
e-Mail: peter.eigner@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/eigner-peter/
Hubert Emmerig, ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Numismatics and Monetary History
Research fields: coinage and currency in Austria and its neighbouring countries in the Middle Ages and modern times
e-Mail: hubert.emmerig@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://numismatik.univie.ac.at/en/
Alexa Färber, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: tba
e-Mail: alexa.faerber@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/reseachers/alexa-faerber/
Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Mag. Dr.
Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the OAW
Research fields: The Balkans; Austria; migrants; elite and popular culture; media communication; national identity projects; everyday culture
e-Mail: wladimir.fischer@univie.ac.at, wladimir.fischer@oeaw.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw/staff/fischer-nebmaier-wladimir
Felix Gailinger, BA BA MA
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: family and kinship research; precarisation and biography research, (anti-)classism/transclasse in theory and practice; legal anthropology; cultural studies urban research and the materiality of urban infrastructures
e-Mail: felix.gaillinger@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/reseachers/felix-gaillinger/
Therese Garstenauer, Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: History of labour and livelihoods; history of civil servants; social studies of science and humanities; gender studies; geometric data analysis
e-mail: therese.garstenauer@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/garstenauer-therese/ and http://homepage.univie.ac.at/therese.garstenauer/
Korbinian Grünwald, MA
Dean's office of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies,
Research fields: Economic and social history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, urban history, scope for action, "financial and property markets", social network analysis, databases
e-Mail-Adresse: korbinian.gruenwald@univie.ac.at
Ingo Haar, Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History (project member until 2012)
Research fields: Jewish migration; history of forced migration in Europe; history of science in the 20th century; Holocaust research; social history of German elites
Research project (2010-2012): Jewish migration and diversity in Vienna and Berlin (1881–1918); funded by WWTF
e-Mail: ingo.haar@univie.ac.at
Marion Hamm, Dr. M.A.
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: social movements, politics of memory, mobilities, migration, precarisation and forms of technosociality
e-Mail: marion.hamm@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/reseachers/marion-hamm/
Julia Harnoncourt, Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History (lecturer);
Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg
Research fields: labour history, unfree labour, colonial history, racism research
e-Mail: julia.harnoncourt@gmail.com; julia.harnoncourt@uni.lu
Thassilo Hazod, MA
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: economic anthropology, family and kinship research, rural areas and ethnographic methods
e-Mail: thassilo.hazod@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/reseachers/thassilo-hazod/
Julia Heinemann, Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Historical anthropology, social relations, family and kinship, rule and political culture, body history, gender history, new military history
e-Mail: julia.heinemann@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/heinemann-julia/
Michael Hödl, Mag. BSc BA
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Economic history of 19th and 20th century Vienna; clothing industry; urban trade and industry
e-Mail: michael.hoedl@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/hoedl-michael/
Paul M. Horntrich, Mag. BA BA
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: History of Sexuality; History of Pornography; Porn Studies
e-Mail: paul.horntrich@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/horntrich-paul-m/
https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/horntrich-paul-m/
Dietlind Hüchtker, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
Research fields: History of spaces; interdisciplinary gender research; transregional political history; transregional history of knowledge and science
e-Mail: dietlind.huechtker@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/huechtker-dietlind/
Aris Kafantogias, Mag.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Economic and social history of the early modern period and the 19th century, history of material culture, consumer history, history of clothing and textiles
e-Mail: aris.kafantogias@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/kafantogias-aris/
Klemens Kaps, Mag. Dr.
Department of Social and Economic History, JKU Linz
(formerly the Department of Economic and Social History)
Research fields: Economic and social history of the Habsburg monarchy between the late 18th and early 20th century, with a particular focus on trans-regional domestic and foreign trade; trade diplomacy (consuls, ambassadors) in the Iberian region in the 18th century; trade and merchant networks in the Mediterranean and Spanish Atlantic in the 18th century; economic policy (Habsburg monarchy, Spain); economic discourses, cultural stereotypes and images in the 18th century (Habsburg monarchy)
e-Mail: klemens.kaps@jku.at, klemens.kaps@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://upo.academia.edu/KlemEns; https://www.jku.at/institut-fuer-sozial-und-wirtschaftsgeschichte/institut/team/kaps/
Mario Keller, Mag.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: film and media history, film in the GDR (DEFA), contemporary history (especially Austrian history after 1945, the history of the Cold War), the history of advertising films
e-Mail: mario.keller@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://oesterreichischer-werbefilm.univie.ac.at/home/; https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/keller-mario/
Johann Karl Kirchknopf, Mag.
Department of Economic and Social History;
QWIEN
Research fields: History of sexuality (especially the history of homosexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries); contemporary history (focusing on the Third Reich, Nazi crimes and the culture of remembrance); women's and gender history
e-Mail: johann.kirchknopf@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/kirchknopf-johann-karl/
Andrea Komlosy, ao. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Economic and social history of the Habsburg monarchy and its successor states, 18th-20th century; borders, migration and uneven development at the regional, national and global levels; industrial history, the world of work and musealisation; the history of textiles as a history of global interaction
e-Mail: andrea.komlosy@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/emeriti-retired/komlosy-andrea/
Alexandra Krenn-Leeb, Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology
Research fields: Human Ecology and Archaeology of the Aeneolithic; Environmental and Landscape Archaeology; Mobility and Communication Structures; Subsistence Strategies – Resource Management – Nutritional Concepts; Neolithic – Aeneolithic – Bronze Age, Space and Ritual, Disposal Strategies
Oliver Kühschelm, Mag. Dr., Privatdoz.
Institute of Rual History, St. Pölten
Department of Economic and Social History
Was bisher geschah
Research fields: History of the bourgeoisie; History of consumption, product communication and advertising; Jewish emigration to Argentina and Uruguay; Provenance research on Nazi-looted art in museums; Methodological focus: text and discourse analysis, image-text communication
e-Mail: oliver.kuehschelm@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/lecturerssenior-lecturers/kuehschelm-oliver/ ; https://www.ruralhistory.at/de/institut/team/oliver-kuehschelm; https://wasbishergeschah.at/index.html
Erich Landsteiner, ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Agricultural history; economic history of the early modern period (trade and finance, iron production)
e-Mail: erich.landsteiner@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/landsteiner-erich/
Ernst Langthaler, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Department of Social and Economic History
Research fields: agricultural and nutritional history; cultural history; historical anthropology
e-Mail: ernst.langthaler@jku.at
Homepage: https://www.jku.at/institut-fuer-sozial-und-wirtschaftsgeschichte/institut/team/langthaler/
Margareth Lanzinger, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Historical anthropology and microhistory; history of property and ownership; inheritance and marriage property models; social practice of law, marriage and family; historical kinship research; cultural history of administration; Alpine history; construction of heroes
e-Mail: margareth.lanzinger@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/lanzinger-margareth/
Nora Lehner, Mag.a BA
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: The history of sexuality in German-speaking countries, women's and gender history, biography research, discourse analysis
e-Mail: nora.lehner@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/lehner-nora-maria/
Manuel Liebig, BA MA
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: (critical) research on migration and border regimes; research and criticism of racism; social movements; conflict and protest research; cultural theory; urban research
e-Mail: manuel.liebig@univie.ac.at
Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, MA
Department of East Asian Studies,
Research fields: women and the law in China, the status of Chinese women in the past and present and their position in today's People's Republic of China, in Hong Kong and in Taiwan
e-Mail: astrid.lipinsky@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://sinologie.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/person-detailansicht/user/lipinsa2/inum/1075/backpid/70113/ und http://www.sinojus-feminae.eu/
Klara Löffler, ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: leisure and tourism research; biographical research; methods and theory
e-Mail: klara.loeffler@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/institut/personal/wissenschaftliches-personal/klara-loeffler/
Claudia Martínez Hernández, MSc.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research assistant in the research project "Entanglements Cuba-GDR: mobilities, exchanges, circulations within the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA/COMECON)" (project leader: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Berthold Unfried)
Research fields: International Relations, History of development politics, History of the socialist world system
e-Mail: claudia.martinez-hernandez@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/martinez-hernandez-claudia/
https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/martinez-hernandez-claudia/
David Mayer, Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History (lecturer), International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam)
Research fields: Labour history, history of social movements (especially in Latin America), history of historiography, history of Marxism, intellectual history
e-Mail: david.mayer@univie.ac.at / david.mayer@iisg.nl
Alexander Mejstrik, Mag. Dr.
Former research assistant in the project ‘The Production of Work’ (Director: Sigrid Wadauer) at the Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: social history of the professions, education, and youth; social history and sociology of art; research programme field and geometric data analysis
e-Mail: alexander.mejstrik@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://pow.univie.ac.at/
Fritz Mitthof, Univ. Prof. Dr.
Department of Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy
Research fields: political, social, administrative, military, economic, monetary, cultural, intellectual and scientific history of the Imperium Romanum in the Principate and Late Antiquity (1st-7th century AD); editing and annotating written primary sources in Latin and Greek (inscriptions, papyri, ostraca, etc.); Roman historiography and identity; ancient southeastern Europe; Greco-Roman Egypt
e-Mail: fritz.mitthof@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://altegeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/members/staff/mitthof/
Andreas Moitzi, MA
Former member of staff at the Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: social and economic history of the late Middle Ages; history of medieval crafts; aspects of the history of everyday life, history of mentalities, ordals, fechtbücher (medieval books on hand-to-hand combat); realia studies
e-Mail: andreas.moitzi@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://pheilsniczer.net/de/ueber-den-pheilsniczer
Federico Morelli, PD. Mag. Dr.
Austrian Academy of Sciences, former member of staff at the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies, Papyrology and Epigraphy
Research fields: papyrology; economic and social history of late antique and early Arabic Egypt: wages and prices, nutrition and food rations; monetary and natural economy; material culture; textile history; organisation of labour in large-scale land ownership and in the civil service; taxation and tax resistance; seafaring and trade. Transition from late antiquity to Islam; trade with India in the Roman imperial period.
e-Mail: federico.morelli@oeaw.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/oeai/institut/team/person/federico-morelli
Karin Moser, Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: film and media history, advertising and industrial film, propaganda film, Austrian identity constructions, East-West stereotypes / Cold War, film censorship, film policy
e-Mail: karin.moser@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://oesterreichischer-werbefilm.univie.ac.at/home/; https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/moser-karin/
Günter Müller, Mag.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Collection, documentation and provision of autobiographical sources as part of the "Dokumentation lebensgeschichtlicher Aufzeichnungen" at the Department of Economic and Social History
e-Mail: lebensgeschichten@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://lebensgeschichten.univie.ac.at
Herbert Nikitsch, Dr.
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: History of Austrian folklore studies; Heimatschutz movement; popular religiosity
e-Mail: herbert.nikitsch@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/institut/personal/ehemalige/herbert-nikitsch/
Sarah Nimführ, Dr. Dipl. Päd. M.A.
University of Art and Design Linz, Department of Cultural Studies; former member of statt at the Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: Critical Migration Studies; Engaged Anthropology; Collaborative Knowledge Production; Island Studies; Transnational Memory Cultures, Decoloniality
e-Mail: sarah.nimfuehr@ufg.at
Homepage: www.sarahnimfuehr.com
Dorothea Nolde, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of History
Research fields: Comparative history of early modern Western Europe (with a focus on France and Germany); cultural history of diplomacy; cultural contacts and cultural transfer in the early modern period; historical research on violence and conflict; gender history
e-Mail: dorothea.nolde@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/academic-staff/dorothea-nolde/
Andreas Obenaus, MMag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History; Association for the Promotion of Studies in Intercultural History VSIG (Vienna)
Research fields: History of the Islamic and Christian Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages; communication, trade, cultural exchange and knowledge transfer between the Islamic and Christian worlds during the Middle Ages; history of seafaring and the development of nautical science in medieval Europe; origin and early phase of European Atlantic expansion
e-Mail: andreas.obenaus@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.brg9.at/web/?page_id=442; https://www.facebook.com/VSIGinterkulturelleGeschichte/
Corinna Peres, MA
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Italy and the Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, dependent labour in the pre-modern era, Mediterranean slavery, microhistory, historical semantics, digital humanities
e-Mail: corinna.peres@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/alumni-former-staff/peres-corinna/
Alexander Pinwinkler, Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History (Lecturer)
Research fields: History of science, especially of transdisciplinary population research and ‘völkisch science’ in the 20th century; history of the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg; exile and remigration of Austrian legitimists before and after 1938/45
e-Mail: alexander.pinwinkler@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/lecturerssenior-lecturers/pinwinkler-alexander/
Manfred Pittioni, Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History (Lecturer)
Research fields: Social and economic history of the Italian maritime republics; Ottoman social and economic history; Global history 1200–1500, with a focus on the Mediterranean and the Islamic world.
e-Mail: manfred.pittioni@univie.ac.at
Claudia Rapberger, MA
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Historical anthropology; ego documents and self-testimonies; historical family and kinship research; illegitimate childhood in the 19th and 20th centuries
eMail: claudia.rapberger@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/rapberger-claudia/
Claudia Rapp, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Research fields: cultural and intellectual history; social and religious history; ritual and communication; written culture; late antiquity
e-Mail: c.rapp@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.byzneo.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/akademisches-personal/rapp-claudia/
Peter Rauscher, Mag. Dr., Privatdoz.
Department of History
Research fields: political history; financial and administrative history; Jewish history; economic history; regional and chronological focus: the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy in the early modern period
e-Mail: peter.rauscher@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/peter.rauscher/; http://www.univie.ac.at/donauhandel/
Jessica Richter, Dipl.-Sozialwiss. MSc. Dr.
Department of Rural History, St. Pölten
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: History and sociology of labour (esp. service and domestic work); women's and gender history; gender relations research; rural society in the 20th century; labour migration
e-Mail: jessica.richter@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.ruralhistory.at/de/institut/team/jessica-richter; http://pow.univie.ac.at/
Kirsten Rüther, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of African Studies
Research fields: History of Africa, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries; colonialism and Christianisation in Africa; professionalisation of African healers in South Africa, family and kinship research; global dimensions of African history
e-Mail: kirsten.ruether@univie.ac.at
Tim Rütten, Mag.
Charité Berlin; former member of the Department of History
Research fields: women's and gender history, enlightenment, history of the body and of emotions, discourse analysis
e-Mail: tim.ruetten@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://medizingeschichte.charite.de/metas/person/person/address_detail/tim_ruetten-1/,
Juliane Schiel, Assoz.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Labour and social dependency in pre-modern Europe, semantics of dependency, slavery in the Mediterranean, microhistory, entangled history, global labour history
e-Mail: juliane.schiel@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/schiel-juliane/
Georg Schinko, Mag. Dr.
Former project collaborator on "The Production of Work", Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Entertainment and Leisure; Music and Making Music; Work, Maintenance, and Occupation; spatial and temporal focus: Austria 1918-1938
e-Mail: georg.schinko@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://pow.univie.ac.at/
Julia Anna Schranz, BA BA MA
Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
Research fields: Oral History as a method of contemporary history Austrian history of asylum and migration since 1945 Transregional history of rural areas Historical narratives and cultures of remembrance in South-East Europe
e-Mail: julia.anna.schranz@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/schranz-julia/
Andrea Barbara Serles, Mag.
Institute of Austrian Historical Research
Research fields: economic history (with a focus on the late Middle Ages and early modern period), financial, constitutional and administrative history (Habsburg monarchy)
e-Mail: andrea.serles@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.univie.ac.at/donauhandel/;
https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/serles-andrea-barbara/
Reinhard Sieder, ao. Univ.-Prof. i. R. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Violence against children and young people; social systems of private reproduction in marriages, families, forms of households and living in a global comparison (Europe, Latin America, China, West Africa); everyday working life, living, household and family life in Red Vienna (1919-1934); history, theories and qualitative methods of historical studies.
e-Mail: reinhard.sieder@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/emeriti-retired/sieder-reinhard/
Annemarie Steidl, Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Privatdoz.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Migration; Trade; Urban History; Women's and Gender History
e-Mail: annemarie.steidl@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/steidl-annemarie/
Lienhard Thaler, BA Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Finances of medieval sovereigns; medieval administrative history; history of the missions (in particular Austrian Capuchin missionaries in Manchuria in the 20th century); history of the nobility; history of Tyrol.
e-Mail: lienhard.thaler@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/thaler-lienhard/
Philipp Ther, Univ.-Prof. Dr. MA
Department of East European History
Research fields: cultural history of Central Europe in the long 19th century; comparative nationalism studies, migration history with a focus on forced migration, communism research; history of the transformation period; history theory, especially comparative studies and cultural transfer
e-Mail: philipp.ther@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://iog.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/professors/ther-philipp/
Claudia Theune, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology
Research fields: Archaeology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages/Early Modern Times (questions of continuity and structural change; settlement history); production and exchange
e-Mail: claudia.theune@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://histarch.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/univ-prof-dr-claudia-theune/
Sven Tost, Mag. Dr.
Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library
Research fields: Economic, social and administrative structures and the development of mentalities in the Hellenistic period and Late Antiquity, especially ownership and usage relationships and the organisation of labour in agriculture; monetisation and market integration; organisation and financing of the public police and security apparatus; edition, historical analysis and contextualisation of documentary papyri.
e-Mail: sven.tost@onb.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.clio-online.de/researcher/id/researcher-9885
Berthold Unfried, Univ.-Doz. Mag. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Redress of historical injustice. Compensation and restitution in a global perspective; global politics of memory and historical expertise; concepts and practices of ‘development’; development experts in times of competing systems: Western ‘development aid’ and Eastern ‘socialist aid’; practices of institutionalised self-thematisation: confession and self-criticism
e-Mail: berthold.unfried@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/lecturerssenior-lecturers/unfried-berthold/
Irina Vana, Mag.
Former researcher on the project ‘The Production of Work’ at the Department of Economic and Social History.
Research fields: unemployment, job placement and job hunting (1880-1938); applied poverty and social reporting
e-Mail: irina.vana@univie.ac.at
Homepage: http://pow.univie.ac.at/
Sigrid Wadauer, Mag. Dr., Privatdoz.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Work and livelihood, crafts and trades, migration/mobility and settlement, life course and ego documents, petty crime, practices of the judiciary and the executive.
e-Mail: sigrid.wadauer@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/wadauer-sigrid/; http://pow.univie.ac.at/
Kirsten Wandschneider, Ass.-Prof. MSc PhD
Department of Economic and Social History and Department of Economics
Research fields: European economic and social history, particularly the emergence of financial markets and institutions; currencies and exchange rates; international trade relations; quantitative and econometric methods
e-Mail: kirsten.wandschneider@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/wandschneider-kirsten/
Hubert Weitensfelder, Univ.-Doz. Dr.
Department of Economic and Social History
Research fields: Cultural history of technology (including the history of mercury mining and the beginnings of galvanisation); history of labour.
e-Mail: hubert.weitensfelder@tmw.at
Jens Wietschorke, Dr. Privatdoz.
Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich
Research fields: Urban research and urban anthropology; historical ethnography and cultural analysis; history and symbolic economy of the educated bourgeoisie; history of science
e-Mail: jens.wietschorke@univie.ac.at; J.Wietschorke@vkde.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
Homepage: http://www.volkskunde.uni-muenchen.de/personen/mitarbeiter/jens/index.html
Georg Wolfmayr, Mag.
Department of European Ethnology
Research fields: urban research/urban ethnology, spatial research, gender studies, ethnographic methods
e-Mail: georg_w@gmx.at
Homepage: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/institut/personal/wissenschaftliches-personal/georg-wolfmayr/
Reinhard Wolters, Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Department of Numismatics and Monetary History
Research fields: ancient numismatics and monetary history, Greek and Roman economic history, visual communication, ancient coins from archaeological excavations, history of the Roman provinces and ancient Germania
e-Mail: reinhard.wolters@univie.ac.at