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 MA
Department of Economic and Social History
Contact: jil.von.der.laden@univie.ac.at
Room: ZG201.87 (main bulding, staircase VI)
Student Representatives 2024/25
- Eliana Skënderi Smits, 1st Year (a12205244@unet.univie.ac.at)
- Tamar Kip, 1st Year (a12416126@unet.univie.ac.at)
- Shriya Dixit, 2nd Year (a12316977@unet.univie.ac.at)
- Roxane Schmidt, 2nd Year (a12316987@unet.univie.ac.at)
EMGS Faculty
Department of Economic and Social History
- Univ.-Prof. Christian DE VITO
Contact: christian.de.vito@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Global Labour History, Social History of Punishment, Micro-Spatial History - Assoc.Prof. Federico, D'ONOFRIO
Contact: federico.donofrio@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Agricultural history, History of quantification - Assoc.Prof. Juliane SCHIEL
Contact: juliane.schiel@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Labour History, Slavery Studies, Historical Semantics - Assoc. Prof. Annemarie STEIDL
Contact: annemarie.steidl@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Historical Migration Research, History of Artisans, Gender Studies, Industrialization and Urbanization
Department of History
- ao. Univ.-Prof. Friedrich EDELMAYER
Contact: friedrich.edelmayer@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Spanish, Ibero-American, Italian and imperial history, Global history - ao.Univ.-Prof. Martina KALLER
Contact: martina.kaller@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Global food history, Latin American history 19c. and 20c., Ivan Illich studies - Assoc. Prof. Elisabeth RÖHRLICH
Contact: elisabeth.roehrlich@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Cold War Studies, International Organizations, Atomic Energy Agency
Department of Contemporary History
- Univ.-Prof.in Lucile DREIDEMY
Contact: lucile.dreidemy@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: NGOs, political foundations, transnational political networks and global governance, Development politics in the Context of the Cold War, Authoritarianism, fascism and democratic transitions in Europe, Austrias Contemporary history in a global context - Assoc.Prof.in Valeska HUBER
Contact: valeska.huber@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Global Migration Regimes, Mobility Studies, International History
Department of Legal and Constitutional History
- Univ.-Prof. Lena FOLJANTY
Contact: lena.foljanty@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Processes of globalisation and translation in law, Transnational history of legal practice and legal methods, Law in Nazi Germany and legal processing of Nazi crimes, Legal gender studies, intersectionality and Critical Race Theory - Univ.-Prof. Miloš VEC
Contact: milos.vec@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: History of international law, Law in the Industrial Revolution, Scientific history of public law, History of criminalistics & criminology
Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
- Univ.-Prof. Noémie ETIENNE
Contact: noemie.etienne@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage, Conservation Theories, Exoticism and Orientalism
Department of International Development
- Ass.Prof. Eva-Maria MUSCHIK (*Currently no supervision of theses)
Contact: eva-maria.muschik@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: History of development, international organizations, decolonization, peacekeeping, North South conflict
Department of Sociology
- Assoc. Prof. Michael PARZER
Contact: michael.parzer@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Social Inequality, Inclusion/Exclusion, Migration and Social Participation, Cultural Sociology, Interpretive Social Research
Department of European Ethnology
- Univ.-Prof. 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 African Studies
- Univ.-Prof.in Kirsten RÜTHER
Contact: kirsten.ruether@univie.ac.athttp://univie.ac.at/
Research Interests: Housing and employment in late colonial and early independent urban Zambia, Christianisatin and colonialism, Health-seeking and popular culture in South Africa, Global history, history of entanglements, mobility research
Department of East Asian Studies
- Univ.Prof. Rossella FERRARI
Contact: rossella.ferrari@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Performance cultures of the contemporary Sinosphere, contemporary interactions between the theatres of the Chinese-speaking region, the politics of performance in East Asia - Dr. Alfred Gerstl (*Currently no supervision of theses)
Contact: alfred.gerstl@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: International Relations in the Indo-Pacific, EU Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia, China’s Borderland Interactions, Security Policies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
- Dr. Onur INAL
Contact: onur.inal@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Turkish and Middle East Studies, Ottoman History, Environmental History
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
- Ass.Prof. Borayin LARIOS
Contact: borayin.larios@univie.ac.at
Research Interests: Popular and everyday Hinduism, the intersection of food, religion, and politics, mantra traditions, and material culture