Doctoral candidates
"The Capuchins in the Kingdom of the Congo (1640-1740). A global history between religion, colonialism and knowledge production" (Supervisor: Stefan Ehrenpreis / Elena Taddei)
Diether Becke
Doctoral candidate in historical sciences
"Franz Carl von Becke: Imperial Minister of Finance 1867-1870: An Austrian career in the context of familial and imperial patterns of order" (Supervisor: Gunda Barth-Scalmani / Kurt Scharr) more >>
Eleonora Bonazzi
PhD student in Romance Studies
"The Scapigliatura and its media legacy" (Supervisors: Sabine Schrader / Gianni Turchetta)
Isabella Brandstätter
Doctoral candidate in historical sciences
(Coordinator of the DK since Oct. 2022, currently on maternity leave)
"...there is hardly anyone who is not a member of this brotherhood. Catholic confraternities as a 'burning glass' for gender and social developments from the 17th to the 19th century" (Supervisors: Gunda Barth-Scalmani / Anne Conrad)
Vanessa Carlone
Doctoral candidate in Music Studies
"Between Dream and Death - The Child(-like) in the Musical World of Gustav Mahler" (Supervisors: Federico Celestini / Anne Siegetsleitner) more >>
"The historical development of Austrian spatial planning law" (Supervisor: Martin P. Schennach / Monika Niedermayr)
"The 'Mistapostel' Adolf Trientl (1817-1897). Spaces of knowledge and spatial knowledge in rural Tyrol in the 19th century" (Supervisors: Patrick Kupper / Kurt Scharr)
Mirko Kaloperovic
PhD student of historical sciences
"Discourse analysis of public opinion in Austrian and Serbian newspapers on the Balkan Wars of 1912/13" (Supervisor: Kurt Scharr)
Roland Köchl
PhD student in History (deputy spokesperson of the PhD students Jan. 2023-Oct. 2023, spokesperson of the PhD students since Oct. 2023, coordinator of the DK since September 2024)
"The red treasure of the Alps: Eastern Alpine gemstone mining from the end of the 18th to the 20th century - with a special focus on Zillertal garnet" (Supervisors: Gunda Barth-Scalmani / Kurt Scharr / Gert Goldenberg)
"Rural exodus and dying farms: Who will look after Austria's alpine high mountain villages in the future?" (Supervisor: Ernst Steinicke) more >>
Günther Laimböck
PhD student of historical sciences
"Myth 1809: Didactic reconstruction of the Tyrolean hero Andreas Hofer" (Supervisor: Andrea Brait / Kurt Scharr)
Carmen Mair
PhD student of historical sciences
"Von Gastgeb und Leitgeb, von Schenekn und Herbergen - Tiroler Gaststätte im Mittelalter" (Supervisor: Julia Hörmann-Thurn u. Taxis) more >>
"Urban Landscapes within Mountains and Swamps. Local Identities influenced by Belle Époque Tourism Advertisements from Innsbruck (Tyrol) and New Orleans (Louisiana)" (Supervisor: Uta Degner / Kurt Scharr)
"Autriche in the Encyclopédie - a contribution to the clarification of French-Austrian cultural relations in the 18th century"
(Supervisors: Sigurd Paul Scheichl / Gunda Barth-Scalmani) more >>
Franziska Nössing
Doctoral candidate in Art Science
"Rose Krenn and the Wiener Werkstätte"
(Supervisors: Magdalena Nieslony / Philipp Zitzlsperger)
Marina Pichler
Doctoral candidate in German Philology
"The Literary Field in Austria during the ÖVP-FPÖ Coalition from 2000 to 2006: Literature and Authorship in the Tense Relationship between Politics and the Public Sphere" (Supervisor: Ulrike Tanzer / )
"Nation-building in a regional context. The discourse of autonomy around 'Welschtirol' between 1848 and 1914" (Supervisors: Brigitte Mazohl / Gunda Barth-Scalmani)
Franziska Putz
Doctoral candidate in German Philology
"Telling knowledge - The late medieval and early modern arithmetic book between narration, fiction and didactics" (Supervisor: Michaela Wiesinger)
Melanie Platzer
PhD student in historical sciences (coordinator of the DK March 2024-Aug. 2024)
"Fugitives across the border 1914 - 1920. Deserters in the canton of Graubünden during the First World War" (Supervisors: Gunda Barth-Scalmani / Oswald Überegger)
Anna-Maria Plautz
PhD student in geography
"The demise of "Little Europe". Assimilation and cultural landscape in North-East Italy" (Supervisor: Ernst Steinicke) more >>
Matteo Ruggeri
PhD student of historical sciences
"The Dolomite Ladins and the national question. The mountain world as a medium of identity mediation and mountaineering as an instrument of cultural colonisation in the context of social change" (Supervisors: Kurt Scharr / Elena dai Prà)
"From the splendour of the outfit and the First World War as a caesura. The mirror and couple correspondence of the Unterrichter/Heidler family 1880-1926."
(Supervisor: Gunda Barth-Scalmani)
Rupert Tiefenthaler
PhD student of historical sciences
"Remembrance - politics of remembrance of an artist couple? Franziska von Hoffnaass and Josef Rheinberger" (Supervisors: Stefan Ehrenpreis / Federico Celestini / Melanie Unseld)
Alexander von Tuschinski
"One of the most famous personalities in public life" - Dr Demeter Ritter von Tuschinski (*1870 - after 1950)
Continuities and ruptures in Bukovina in the early 20th century as reflected in the career of a civil servant (Supervisor: Kurt Scharr)
Alice Verti
Doctoral candidate in Music Studies
"Forms of Romantic Irony in Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony" (Supervisor: Federico Celestini) more >>
Isabella Walder
Doctoral candidate in Law
"The organs of the overall constitution" (Supervisor: Anna Gamper / Arno Kahl)
"Zillertal Garnet - Studies on the cultural heritage of the modern gemstone trade" (Supervisors: Gert Goldenberg / Kurt Scharr / Peter Tropper)
Graduates and former members
"Rural exodus and dying farms: Who will look after Austria's alpine high mountain villages in the future?" (Supervisor: Ernst Steinicke) more >>
(deputy spokesperson for the doctoral students Dec. 2020-Jan. 2023)
"The demise of "Little Europe". Assimilation and cultural landscape in North-East Italy" (Supervisor: Ernst Steinicke) more >>
"The House of Representatives of the Cisleithanian Imperial Council and the Nationality Question. The nationalist conflicts in the parliamentary debates using the example of the years 1867, 1882 and 1897" (Supervisor: Margret Friedrich) more >>
Andreas Maier
PhD student of historical sciences
"The standardisation of forest use in the dominion of Kitzbühel. From an (almost) unrestrictedly usable resource in the Middle Ages to a strictly regulated resource in the early modern period" (Supervisors: Kurt Scharr / Martin Schennach / Georg Neuhauser more >>
"On the role of spatial narration in Sabine Gruber's work and its reception in literary criticism" (Supervisor: Renate Giacomuzzi) more >>
Franziska Niedrist
Doctoral candidate in Law
Viva voce January 2023
"The Criminal Jurisprudence of the Supreme Judicial Office for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. A criminal-historical investigation of pre-march legal facts"
(Supervisor: Martin P. Schennach / Margret Friedrich) more >>
"Between Exclusion and Inclusion: People with Disabilities and their Families in 19th Century German and Austrian Literature" (Supervisors: Ulrike Tanzer / Lynne Tatlock)
Elisabeth Reitter
Doctoral candidate in Art History
Viva voce September 2024
"The Court Artists of Archduke Ferdinand II, 1567-1595" (Supervisors: Lukas Madersbacher / Paul Naredi-Rainer) more >>
'National science' between two empires. The Ševčenko Society of Sciences, 1892-1918 (Supervisor: Kurt Scharr)
"Legal history of the performing arts with special consideration of theatre law from the 18th century onwards" (Supervisor: Martin P. Schennach)
Irene Zanol
Doctoral candidate in German Philology
(Coordinator of the DK until July 2022)
Rigorosum August 2024
"Ernst Toller in Austria. Reception and networks of a critical intellectual of the interwar period" (Supervisor: Sieglinde Klettenhammer / Stefan Neuhaus) more >>
Elias Knapp
PhD student in History (since 2024 at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
(deputy speaker of the doctoral students Dec. 2020-Sept. 2021, speaker of the doctoral students Oct. 2021-Oct. 2023)
"A large part of the people were put in the saddest situation by this inflation." Causes, extent and consequences of inflation crises in the city of Salzburg between ca. 1770 and 1850 (Supervisor: Kurt Scharr)
Kassian Lanz
PhD student of historical sciences
"A transnational history of military medicine? The Austro-Hungarian and Italian military medical services on the mountain front during the First World War." (Supervisor: Gunda Barth-Scalmani / Kurt Scharr) more >>
Franziska Mazi
Doctoral candidate in Slavonic Studies
Ethical dimensions in selected works of South Slavic (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian) literature since the 1990s (working title) (Supervisor: Andrea Zink) more >>
Martina Schmidinger
Doctoral candidate in History (since 2024 at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
(Spokesperson of the doctoral students Jan. 2019-Oct. 2022)
"The German-Czech nationality discourse in the Lower Austrian cession areas: Language policy in the school system on a legal and media level" (Supervisors: Kurt Scharr / Helmut Weinberger / Thomas Winkelbauer)