CV

Currently

• Habilitation in Political Science at the University of Vienna in 2020
  
• Since September 2019 head of the project "Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals" financed by an ERC Consolidator Grant and based at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• Since 2019 member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy's of Sciences learned society
  
• Since 2004 teaching at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
  

Previous Positions

• 2013-2019 postdoctoral thesis project (Habilitation) at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on "World War II in Post-Communist Memorial Museums. Politics of History Between an 'Invocation of Europe' and the Focus on 'our' suffering", 2013-2017 as APART fellow, Aug. 2018-July 2019 funded by the Elise-Richter-Program of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Submitted at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna in June 2019, colloquium on 19 May 2020. [Abstract]
  
• In the summer semester 2017 Visiting professor at the Centre for Jewish Studies in Graz
  
• Nov. 2016-June 2017: Expert for the strand 1: "European remembrance" for the Mid-term evaluation of the Europe for Citizens Programme 2014-2020 of the European Commission, conducted by Deloitte
  
• Winter semester 2016/17: Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna
  
• Summer semester 2015: Visiting professor for critical theory of the society at the Department of political science at the Justus Liebig university Gießen, Germany
  
• 2009-2013 postdoc-coordinator of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program "Austrian Galicia and its Multicultural Heritage", Austrian Science Fund (FWF)/Department of East European History, University of Vienna
  

Education

• 2006-2009 Ph.D. at the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program "Cultures of Difference. Transformation in Central Europe", University of Vienna. Thesis: "War on a Reconciliatory Memory - Discourses of Politics of the Past between Revisionism and European Standards", Supervisors: Dieter Segert and Heidemarie Uhl (Disputation on 6 November 2009)
  
• Ph.D. awarded the Michael Mitterauer Prize for Social, Cultural and Economic History in Vienna (main prize) in May 2012
  
• Since 4/2004 MA in Political Science and Philosophy. Thesis: "The Peaceful Anti-Semite Woman? Political Psychology on Gender and Anti-Semitism", Supervisor: Walter Manoschek
  
• Since 1/2006 MA in Translation Studies: Bosnian/ Croatian/Serbian and English. Thesis: "Language of the Holocaust in Austria and Croatia - A Terminological Comparison", Supervisor: Gerhard Budin
  

Commissions of Trust/Peer-reviewer

• Since 2020 Palgrave Macmillan Publishing
• Since 2019 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience (PRIME)
• Since 2019 Austrian Innovation Fund (Studienstiftung) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Since 2019 Südosteuropa. Journal of Politics and Society
• Since 2019 Czech Science Foundation (GRIS)
• Since 2019 Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities Programm, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Since 2019 Journal of Genocide Research
• Since 2018 Cambridge Review of International Affairs
• Since 2018 Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift of the German Army
• Since 2018 Anali Hrvatskog politološkog društva: časopis za politologiju
• 2016/2017 Expert for the Mid-term evaluation of the Europe for Citizens Programme 2014-2020 of the European Commission (Directorate-Generale for Migration and Home Affairs) conducted by Deloitte Consulting, evaluation of strand 1: "European Remembrance"
  
• Since 2017 Yad Vashem Studies, Jerusalem
  
• Since 2016 Ernst-Mach Fellowship of the Austrian agency for international mobility and cooperation in education, science and research (OeAD)
  
• Since 2016 Nationalities Papers, Routledge
  
• Since 2014 Scientific Advisory Board for the project Redesigning the Austrian Heroes' Monument in Vienna, Austrian Ministry of Defence
  
• Since 2014 Peter Lang Oxford publishing house, Great Britain
  
• Since 2014 Austrian Political Studies Association (OEGPW)
  
• Since 2014 Austrian Journal of Political Science (OEZP)
  
• Since 2013 Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, Germany
  
• Since 2012 Fellowship Program of the German Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship
  

Teaching

Department of Political Science, University of Vienna

• SS 2020 | Theories of Racism, Antisemitism, Antigypsism and Islamophobia (BA "Vorlesung")
  
• WS 2018 | 2 courses: "Theories of Racism, Antisemitism, Antigypsism and Islamophobia" (MA "Vorlesung") and "Democratization & Politics of the Past in Central and South Eastern Europe" (MA-"Seminar")
  
• SS 2018 | 2 courses: "Theories of Antisemitism" (BA "Seminar") and "The Head of Passion. Critical Theory and Critique of Society" (BA "Ringvorlesung"), Vienna
  
• WS 2016 | Divided Memories in Central Europe
  
• SS 2016 | Conflicting Pasts in the Post-Yugoslav Space
  
• WS 2015 | Divided Memories in Central and South East Europe
  
• SS 2014 | Transformation of Memory Politics after 1989
  
• WS 2013 | Memory Culture and Politics in Central and South East Europe
  
• WS 2012 | Democratisation and Memory Politics in Central and South East Europe
  
• WS 2011 | Center or periphery? The "East" in the European Memory Community
  
• SS 2011 | BA-seminar (supervision of BA-thesis')
  
• WS 2010 | BA-seminar (supervision of BA-thesis')
  
• SS 2010 | Holocaust vs. Gulag? - Memory conflicts in Central Europe after 1989
  
• WS 2008 | Memory Cultures and Politics of the Past in Central Europe
  
• SS 2006 | 2 courses: Austrian Politics and the EU
  
• WS 2005 | Political Theory: Masses and Mass Movements
  
• SS 2005 | Political Theory of Anti-Semitism
  
• WS 2004 | Austrian Politics and the EU
  

Visiting professorship Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz

SS 2017
• Lecture: Theories of Antisemitism
  
• SE: Gender and National Socialism as seen by Jewish, non-Jewish and Christian feminists after 1945
  
• SE: Shoah and Porajmos in Central East and South East Europe - Memory politics and musealization
  

Interdisciplinary Visiting Professorship for Critical Theory of the Society
Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany

SS 2015
• Psychoanalysis as critical theory of the society
  
• Anti-Semitism theory
  
• Gender, National socialism and anti-Semitism
  
• (Central and southeastern) European memory conflicts after 1989

Political Education Course at the Danube-University Krems

• July 2009 | Memory Politics and Cultures in European Comparison (with Heidemarie Uhl)

Tutor at the Department of State Science, University of Vienna

• 2006-2007 One year research course: "Political Structures and the Political System of the Kosovo" (Walter Manoschek)
  
• 2004-2005 One year research course of Walter Manoschek: "Jewish Destinies at the 15th district of Vienna" (Walter Manoschek)
  

Organization of Conferences & Workshops

• Sept. 2019: 2nd Vienna-Jerusalem Graduate School Memory and Media - Media of Memory, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  
• Oct. 2018: International conference Das umkämpfte Museum. Zeitgeschichte ausstellen zwischen Dekonstruktion und Sinnstiftung, Annual conference of the IKT, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• Sept. 2017: 1st Vienna-Jerusalem Graduate School Memory and the City, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Hebrew University, University of Vienna
  
• June 2017: Workshop Auratische Erinnerungsorte - Mahnmale und Gedenkmuseen im Zeitalter der 'Universalisierung des Holocaust' as part of the visiting professorship at the Center for Jewish Studies, Graz University
  
• Sept. 2016: International conference Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Neue Forschungsprojekte in Österreich und Polen, Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
  
• Dec. 2014: International conference Auschwitz im Kontext - Die ehemaligen Konzentrationslager im gegenwärtigen europäischen Gedächtnis, Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
  
• Dec. 2014: International workshop Remembrance of the Holocaust and Nazi Crimes in Post-1989 Europe. Reflecting on Competition and Conflict in European Memory, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity & Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
  
• June 2010: International conference Galicia in the 20th Century. A Region in the Shadow of Empires des interdisziplinären , PhD program "Austrian Galicia and Its Multicultural Heritage" based at the University of Vienna, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
  
• Sept. 2009: Graduate Conference Kulturelle Wände! Zentraleuropa transdisziplinär, PhD program "Cultures of Difference. Transformation in Central Europe" at the University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• Oct. 2007: Workshop Neue Zukunft - Neue Vergangenheit(en)? Zentraleuropäisches Gedächtnis nach 1989 PhD program "Cultures of Difference. Transformation in Central Europe", University of Vienna
  

Students Representative

• 2005-2007 Representative of the doctoral students (Dr. phil) at the University of Vienna
  
• 2006-2007 Delegate of the Austrian Students' Union at the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers - EURODOC

Language Proficiency

• German, Croatian: native
  
• English: fluent
  
• French: school knowledge
  
• Jiddisch: reading competence
  

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