Mátyás Mervay, M.A., M.Phil.
Email: matyas.mervay@nyu.edu
Ph.D. Candidate at New York University's History Department, with focus on the state administration and diaspora self-organization of post-Habsburg Central European refugees and expatriates in Republican Era-China (1918-1949).
As a Visiting Fellow, he is creating a digital humanities project using the Viennese journalist, Hungarian leftist emigrant, and Shanghai newspaper-founder László (Ladislaus) Frank's memoirs.
His fields of interest include:
- global history
- the history of Sino-foreign interactions
- refugee and migration studies
Katarzyna Nowak, PhD
Email:katarzyna.nowak@univie.ac.at
Post-doctoral researcher working on population displacement in the early Cold War period in the global perspective.
First monograph: Kingdom of Barracks. Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-occupied Germany and Austria (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023).
Current project: Vatican's involvement in post-World War II refugee assistance.
Research fields:
- Cold War
- Refugees and Displaced Persons
- Cultural and social history
Dr. Linda Erker
Email: linda.erker@univie.ac.at
As a permanent fellow of GLORE and as post-doctoral researcher she focuses on migration of scholars from Austria to South America between 1930 und 1970.
Her research and teaching interests include:
- the history of persecution and migration in connection with National Socialism;
- the history of science in Austria, Spain and South America;
- comparative perspectives on fascism;
- ideological continuities of political changes in Austria from the interwar period to post world war;
- the culture of remembrance in Austria and Germany after 1945.
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Philipp Strobl
E-mail: philipp.strobl@univie.ac.at
Philipp Strobl is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History (University of Vienna). He has worked as a professor, visiting professor and lecturer at universities in Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the USA and Australia. His research is focused on transfer processes and particularly on the transfer and adaption of migrating knowledge. He has published widely in the field.
His most recent book "A History of Displaced Knowledge: Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia" will be published with Brill (Leiden) in the Studies in Global Migration History series.
Sarah Grandke, MA
Email: Sarah.Grandke@ur.de
Ph.D. project on Eastern European Displaced Persons after the Second World War as memory activists in Germany and Austria and the cases of Flossenbürg and Ebensee. She publishes also on the Nazi persecution of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as exhibition projects. Furthermore, she writes in an essayistic way about researching DP histories, their legacies and meeting their descendants: vakantio.de/mitgeschichteumdiewelt
Her research interests include:
- history of persecution and migration in connection with National Socialism and Stalinism as well as its aftermaths;
- culture(s) of remembrance as well as silenced histories in Europe and Australia after 1945