Team

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 Institute for 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 Hendrik Wagenaar 2020: Deliberative Policy Analysis, Interconnectedness and Institutional Design: Lessons from „Red Vienna“, in: Policy Studies, 41. Jahrgang H 4, 411-437, DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2020.1717456.
  • „Ein Brückenkopf des Deutschtums in Südost?“ Die Schwarze Reichswehr in Österreich 1919-1922, in: Hänni, Adrian/Rickenbacher, Daniel/Schmutz, Thomas (Hg.), Über Grenzen hinweg. Transnationale politische Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt 2020, 91-123.
  • „The Duty to Express Value Judgments“. Charles Adams Gulick, Interwar Austria and the Question of Political Neutrality as a Scholarly Virtue, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies 28/2019, 241-279.
Portrait Sabine Lichteneberger © Sabine Lichtenberger
Portrait Sabine Lichteneberger © Sabine Lichtenberger

Mag.a Sabine Lichtenberger

Scientific 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

Scientific staff: Historian

Research focus

  • Labour history / Labour movement history
  • Social history
  • Austrian interwar period


Current Projects

  • Collective biography of social democratic paramilitaries in the interwar period (Republikanischer Schutzbund)
  • A social history of abortion in Austria from 1918 to 1938


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Portrait Paul Dvorak © Paul Dvorak

Paul Dvořak, MA

Scientific 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 Nora Linnerud © Nora Linnerud

Nora Linnerud, BA

Project management and administration: Historian

  • Theodor Körner Fund
  • Edith Saurer Fund
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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


Portrait Frank Jacob © Frank Jacob
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


Portrait Alexander Emanuely © privat
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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Portrait Florence Klauda © Portrait Florence Klauda

Florence Klauda, BA MA

Junior Research Fellow: ÖAW Doc fellow, historian

Research focus

  • Comparative European Contemporary History
  • European history of democracy
  • History of knowledge

Current project


Nike Kirnbauer © privat
Nike Kirnbauer © privat

Nike Kirnbauer, BA

Intern: Historian

Research focus

  • Social movements
  • Feminist and queer history
  • Relationships and networks

Current projects


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