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• Curriculum Vitae

  • University education: History and Ethnology at the University of Vienna (Mag. phil. 1985, Dr. phil. 1994), African History and American Women's History at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Fulbright award, M.A. 1987)
  • 1987 research assistant at the Department of History of the University of Vienna (replacement)
  • 1987-1989 research assistant in projects of the Department of History of the University of Vienna (exhibition project on the history of women's suffrage, headed by Univ.Prof. Dr. Edith Saurer) and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (international conference and book on international and Austrian aspects of the "Anschluss" in March 1938, headed by Univ.Prof. Dr. Gerald Stourzh)
  • 1989-1993 research assistant for the Commission for Austrian History (since 1993 Historical Commission) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • since 1993 university assistant, since 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Vienna
  • Feb.-April 2017 Visiting Professor at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
  • retired since 1 October 2026
• Awards

  • Fulbright student award, University of Minnesota 1985/86
  • Karl von Vogelsang promotional award 1995
  • Fulbright scholar grant 2002
  • UNIVIE International Award 2019

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• Research Interests

  • legal and constitutional history of Europe and North America with a special focus on the history of suffrage
  • women's and gender history
  • history of migration with a focus on the legal status of foreigners
  • history of slavery (especially slave narratives)
  • comparative and transnational history
• Projects

  • Supervisor of the Jubiläumsfondsproject of the Austrian National Bank Nr. 16774 at the Demokratiezentrum Wien:
    "Changing Concepts of Peace: An Analysis of the Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded 1901-2015"
    Conducted by: Susanne Reitmair-Juárez MA
    Length: 01.01.2016-30.06.2017
  • On the Legal Status of Foreigners: Aliens and Fundamental Rights in Austria and in an International Perspective, from the mid-18th Century to 1918

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• Fellowship and Membership

  • Editorial Board: Austrian History Yearbook (until Oct. 2026)
  • Editorial Board: Women's History Review (until Oct. 2026)
  • 2010-2013 working group "Constitutions and the Legitimisation of Power" in the research project of the European Research Council "Europe 1815-1914. Between Restoration and Revolution, National Constitutions and Global Law: An Alternative View on the European Century 1815-1914 " at the University of Helsinki
  • Demokratiezentrum Wien (member of the executive committee) (until Oct. 2026)
  • International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (until 2026)
• Editorship

  former co-editor of the Gerald Stourzh-Vorlesungen zur Geschichte der Menschenrechte und der Demokratie/Gerald Stourzh Lectures on the History of Human Rights and Democracy
• Reviewer

  Reviews for the Czech Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Marietta Blau Stipendium, Stipendien für kurzfristige Aufenthalte der Aktion Österreich-Tschechien and various journals (Aspasia, Journal of Women's History, Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione)