Univ. Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, MA

kerstin.von.lingen@univie.ac.at

 

Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

 

• History of genocide, forced labour and violence, especially the Holocaust

• Decolonization processes (especially in Asia)

• Contemporary legal history

• Studies of memory, identity and apology

• Historical migration studies

 

Jiayi Tao, PhD

jiayi.tao@univie.ac.at

 

Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.

Previously working on:

• UNRRA in China

Current research project:

• Relief, Return, and Reform: Resettling displaced Chinese in civil war China, 1945-1949

Research interests:

• Global history

• Internationalism and humanitarianism

• History of migration

• Post-colonial state-building and modernisation

Pauli Aro, MA

pauli.aro@univie.ac.at

 

Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Previous work on Sudeten German Nazism and Memory Culture and on ethnic German migrant nationalism as well as in Public History. Currently working on “Navigating Germanness and Exile. Ethnic German Expellees between DP Policies, Ethnonational Claims, and Refugee Agency in post-war Austria”.

Research Interests

• Histories of Nationalism (especially German minority activism)

• Histories of Welfare Activism

• Histories of Migration

• Memory Culture

 

Raphaela Monika Bollwein, BEd MA

raphaela.monika.bollwein@univie.ac.at

 

project and doctoral researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

has done research in the areas:

• forced labour and war economy, especially World War II

• history of the Holocaust and concentration camps

• post-war justice

• migration- and DP-studies

 

Lena Clara Christoph, BA MA

lena.christoph@univie.ac.at

 

Doctoral researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

Current research project

• Displacement and Resettlement of Jewish Refugees, 1945-1951: Transit through the Philippines

Research Interests

• Global history

• Post-conflict justice, memory, and reconciliation

• Theory and praxis of political solidarity

• Anti-colonial thought, activism, and connection

• Asylum regimes

 

Elisabeth Czerniak, BA MA

elisabeth.czerniak@univie.ac.at

 

Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

Current Research Project:

• Hubs of Resettlement: The Case of Shanghai

Key Research Areas:

• Historical Migration Studies

• National Socialism, especially Studies of Persecution, Displacement and Forced Labour

• Exile Research

• Biographical Studies

Johannes Glack, BA MA

johannes.glack@univie.ac.at

 

Doctoral researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He studied "Contemporary History and Media", his master's thesis is entitled "Between Endkampf and Werwolf: The Perpetrators of the Final Phase Crimes in April 1945 in the District of Scheibbs. A micro-historical analysis of court records.

Current research project

• Vulnerable groups of Displaced Persons: resettling the physically or mentally disabled DPs in Europe and abroad

Research Interests

• Contemporary history

• History of National-Socialism and the first post-war decade in Austria

 

Konstantin Schischka BA BEd MA MEd

konstantin.schischka@univie.ac.at

 

DH-spacialist and doctoral researcher

Studied History, Geography and Contemporary History and Media at the University of Vienna. Worked and did research on various contemporary history projects at the University of Vienna and the "Verein zur wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Zeitgeschichte" since 2020, such as:

• Digital Humanities and Digital History

• Economic and Social History

• Spatial History

• Public History

Szilvia Steiner, B.Sc

szilvia.steiner@univie.ac.at

 

Project manager

• Administrativ and financial management of EC funded research projects

• Compliance

• European Research Council (ERC)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

• Societal Challenges

 

 

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