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 (especially to Argentina and Chile).
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.