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    Portrait Florian Wenninger © Christopher Glanzl
    © Christopher Glanzl
    Portrait Florian Wenninger

    Head of Institute

    Mag. Dr. Florian Wenninger

    Head of Institute: Political scientist and historian, Senior Research Fellow and lecturer at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and at the FH Campus Wien;

    Member of the editorial board of the journal ‘Zeitgeschichte’. Head of the research project ‘Political Repression in Austria 1933-1938’.


    Research focus
    • Police and deviance
    • Dictatorship and transformation
    • Historical identity formation

    Recent Publications

    • With Marie-Sophie Egyed (Hg.) 2025, Schaltstelle des Terrors. Geschichte und Personal der Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung Wien 1938-1943, Wien.
    • “Cultural Wars”. Catholic Church, the labor movement and Fascism in Interwar Austria, in: Elena Shapira (Ed.) 2024: Austrian Identity and Modernity. Culture and Politics in the 20th Century, London/New York 2025, 141-155. 
    • Wer kämpfte im Februar 1934? Zur Soziologie eines Aufstandes, in: Florian Wenninger (Hg.), Opposition – Integration – Repression. Neue Studien zum Austrofaschismus 1933 – 1938 [Zeitgeschichte, 52. Jg. H 1/2025], 111-132.** 
    • “No apology is required or offered”. Charles Adams Gulick als Chronist der österreichischen Zwischenkriegszeit, in: Gerald Kohl/Thomas Olechowski/Oliver Rathkolb/Marija Wakounig/Anita Ziegerhofer (Hg.) 2025, Zwischen Rechts- und Zeitgeschichte. Festschrift für Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal, Wien, 463-486.
    • List of publications Florian Wenninger
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    Portrait Paul Dvorak © Paul Dvorak

    Paul Dvořak, MA

    Academic staff and archivist: Historian

    Forschungs­schwerpunkte

    • History of the labour movement
    • History of the modern era in Europe
    • Provenance research


    Current Projects


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    Portrait Jana Jodlbauer © privat

    Jana Jodlbauer, BA

    Institute's Administrator

    Administration of the Theodor Körner Fund

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    Portrait Nora Lehner © privat

    Dr.in Nora Lehner

    Academic staff: Historian, senior researcher at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna

    Research Focus

    • Contemporary history of Austria
    • Social History, especially history of work, social care and criminal justice
    • Women's and gender history
    • History of sexualities, especially history of prostitution
    • (Digital) Public History


    Current projects

    • ‘… to accustom them to an upright and industrious way of life’ – Workhouses in Austria 1885–1975
    • Sexual work. Practitioners, practices and the regulation of commercial sex in Vienna (1945–1975)


    Recent publications

    • „Ich fresse einen Besen, wenn…“ Strategien im Umgang mit Fake History – das Projekt wasbishergeschah, in: Paul Franke/Martin Göllnitz/Janina Schwarz-Ennen/Sarah Krist (Hg.), Fake History? (Un)sichere Vergangenheitsrekonstruktionen auf Social Media, with Benjamin Schlöglhofer, [erscheint 2026].
    • Policing pimping: Gender, migration, and the media in the 1960s Vienna-Hamburg “pimp wars”, in: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/Crime, History & Societies, 2025, with Annalisa Martin [erscheint 2026].
    • Editorial. Zur Sozioökonomie der Sexualitäten im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Sozioökonomie der Sexualitäten (Sozial- und wirtschaftshistorische Studien, Bd. 41), Wien: Böhlau, 7–20, with Paul Horntrich.
    • „Auch diese üble Erscheinung hat im Laufe der letzten Jahre eine Wandlung erfahren“ – der „neue Zuhältertyp“ als (Sicherheits-)Problem im Wien der 1960er Jahre, in: Moderne Stadtgeschichte, Stadtrevier. Polizei und Sicherheit in urbanen Räumen, 2/2023, 101–120.
    • List of publications Nora Lehner


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    Portrait Sabine Lichteneberger © Sabine Lichtenberger

    Mag.a Sabine Lichtenberger

    Academic staff: historian, member of the editorial committee of the magazine ‘Arbeit & Wirtschaft’.

    Research focus

    • Austrian contemporary history
    • History of the Austrian labour and trade union movement
    • History of Austrian labour and social law
    • Biographical research (with special consideration of women's and gender history)

    Current Projects:


    Recent Publications


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    Portrait Rönchen © Charlotte Rönchen

    Charlotte Rönchen, MA

    Academic staff: Historian

    Research focus

    • Labour history / Labour movement history
    • Social history
    • Women's and gender history
    • Austrian interwar period


    Current Projects

    • Femicide in Austria
    • A social history of abortion in Austria from 1918 to 1938


    Recent publications

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    Portrait Jonas Lehr © privat

    Jonas Lehr, BA

    Project staff: Historian

    Rersearch focus

    • Austrofascism
    • Political Repression
    • National Socialist persecution in Vienna

    Current projects


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    Portrait Julian Stricker-Neumayer © privat

    Julian Stricker-Neumayer, MA

    Project staff: Historian

    Research focus

    • Resistance and Persecution under Austrofascism and National Socialism
    • Comparative Research on Fascism
    • Contemporary History of Austria


    Current Projects

    • Political Repression 1933-1938
    • Archival Descriptions
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    Portrait Frank Jacob © Frank Jacob

    Univ.-Prof. DDr. Frank Jacob

    Senior Research Fellow: Professor of 19th and 20th Century Global History at North University, Bodø, Norway. Previously, he was Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the City University of New York (2014-2018) and Research Assistant at the Chair of Modern History at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (2013-2014).

    Research focus

    • Comparative revolutionary history and revolutionary theory
    • History of the labour movement
    • Transnational anarchism
    • Modern Japanese history


    Recent Publications


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    Portrait Alexander Emanuely © privat

    Dr. Alexander Emanuely

    Senior Research Fellow

    Research focus

    • Civil society research
    • Workers' culture
    • Intellectual history

    Recent publications


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    Dr. Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek

    Research Fellow: Historian

    Research focus

    • Social and labour history of socialist Yugoslavia from a transnational perspective
    • History of cities and urbanisation in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the 20th century
    • Women’s and gender history in state-socialist Europe

    Current projects

    • The People’s Department Stores. A Transnational History of Retail in Socialist Yugoslavia


    Recent publications


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    Portrait Julia Carrera © privat

    Julia Carrera, MA

    Junior Research Fellow: Political scientist, Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History, University Vienna 

    Research focus

    • History of the labour movement
    • Biographical research
    • Cold war
    • Public History


    Current projects

    • Out of Hiding. Muriel Gardiner and Joseph Buttinger. A transnational dual biography
    • ‘An Equal Among Equals’. Joseph Buttinger. The Autobiography


    Recent publications

    • Mokka und Marx. Bemerkungen zur „roten“ Gründerzeit, in: Wien. Aufbruch um 1900 (Arbeitstitel), hrsg. von Philipp Blom [erscheint 2026].
    • Kärnten und die Schicksalsjahre 1989/91, in: Umbruch- und Wendejahre. Österreichs Bundesländer und ihre Nachbarn 1989/91, hrsg. von Andrea Brait und Michael Gehler, Wien: Böhlau 2024, mit Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler.
    • Code name ‚Mary‘: Das außergewöhnliche Leben von Muriel Gardiner (=Publikation zur Ausstellung), hrsg. von Freud Museum London und Institut für Historische Sozialforschung, Wien 2024, mit Carol Seigel, Herbert Posch, Markus Stumpf und Florian Wenninger.


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