EMGS Team at the University of Vienna

Head of Studies

Assoz. Prof. Dr. Juliane Schiel

Department of Economic and Social History
Contact: juliane.schiel@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Labour History, Slavery Studies, Historical Semantics

Head of Studies

Prof. Dr. Christian De Vito

Department of Economic and Social History
Contact: christian.de.vito@univie.ac.at 
Research Interests: Global Labour History, Social History of Punishment, Micro-Spatial History

Administrative Coordinator

Birgit Kaiserlehner, BA MA

Department of Economic and Social History
Contact: birgit.kaiserlehner@univie.ac.at
Room: ZG201.87 (main bulding, staircase VI)

Student Assistant

Jil von der Laden, BA

Department of Economic and Social History
Contact: jil.von.der.laden@univie.ac.at 
Room: ZG201.87 (main bulding, staircase VI)

Student Representatives 2023/24

EMGS Faculty

Department of Economic and Social History

Department of History

Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies

 Department of Contemporary History

Department of African Studies

 Department of International Development

Department of European Ethnology

  • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexa FÄRBER 
    Contact: alexa.färber@univie.ac.at
    Research Interests: Cultural urban studies (city and promise, Islam in urban spaces…) representational work, visual cultures/practice (genealogy of photography and promise…), Economic anthropology, Cultural studies of work

Department of Sociology

Department of East Asian Studies

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies