Dr Dirk Rupnow
University Professor
Vice Rector for Human Resources
Phone: +43 512 507-44007
E-mail: Dirk.Rupnow[at]uibk.ac.at
E-mail: Dirk.Rupnow[at]uibk.ac.at
Room no. 40617
Consultation hours by appointment via e-mail
Research interests
- Austrian, German and European contemporary history
- Holocaust Studies
- Jewish Studies
- History of migration
- Memory Studies
- History of science
- cultural studies
- transnational history
- museology
- Theory and method of historical studies
Studies and academic career
- since March 2015 University Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- since September 2013 Associate Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- since October 2012 Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- since March 2009 Research Associate at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- since 2007 Lecturer/Since 2009 Lecturer at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
- 2022 Visiting Professor at the Center for Austrian Studies / European Forum of the Hebrew University Jerusalem
- 2017 Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at Stanford University
- Visiting Positions and Fellowships at the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies IFK (Vienna), Institute for Human Sciences IWM (Vienna), Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC), Jewish Studies Program of Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
- 1999/2000 Member of the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria
- Free University of Berlin, University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt; History, German Philology, Philosophy, Art History; 1999 graduation (Vienna), 2002 doctorate (Klagenfurt), 2009 habilitation (Vienna)
Excerpt
- with Eva Hessenberger, Verena Sauermann (eds.), NS-Zeit im Ötztal, Innsbruck 2025.
- with Martin Kapferer, Mathias Moosbrugger (eds.), Ein Jahrhundert Reinhold Stecher. Kontexte-Einordnungen-Erinnerungen (notae-Historische Notizen zur Diözese Innsbruck-Sonderband 7), Innsbruck 2024.
- with Karl Berger, Christoph Haidacher, Lukas Morscher, Ulrich Nachbaur, Gustav Pfeifer, Ingo Schneider, Oswald Überegger, Melanie Wiener (eds.), Vom Wert des Erinnerns. Wissenschaftliche Projekte der Förderperiode 2019 bis 2023, Innsbruck 2024.
- with Eva Pfanzelter, Èva Kovàcs, Marianne Windsperger (eds.), Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space, Berlin 2024.
- with Ina Friedmann (ed.), Zwangssterilisierungen und "freiwillige Entmannungen" in Tirol und Vorarlberg 1938-1945 (Veröffentlichungen des Innsbrucker Stadtarchivs N.F. 77), Innsbruck 2024.
- with Ingrid Böhler, Karin Harrasser, Monika Sommer, Hilde Strobel (eds.), Ver/störende Orte. Zum Umgang mit NS-kontaminierten Gebäuden, Vienna-Berlin 2024.
- with Marc Landry (ed.), COVID-19 and Pandemics in Austrian History (Contemporary Austrian Studies 32), New Orleans-Innsbruck 2023.
- with Richard Hufschmied, Karin Liebhart, Monika Sommer (eds.), ErinnerungsOrte weiter denken. In memoriam Heidemarie Uhl, Vienna-Cologne 2023.
- with Marcus Gräser (ed.), Österreichische Zeitgeschichte-Zeitgeschichte in Österreich. Eine Standortbestimmung in Zeiten des Umbruchs (Böhlaus Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek vol. 41), Vienna-Cologne 2021.
- with Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Michaela Ralser (eds.), Psychiatrisierte Kindheiten: Die Innsbrucker Kinderbeobachtungsstation von Maria Nowak-Vogl, Innsbruck 2020.
Functions
- since November 2025 Vice-Rector for Human Resources, University of Innsbruck
- March 2018 - October 2025 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History
- October 2010 to March 2018 Head of Department, Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- Member of the Senate, University of Innsbruck (2016-2019; deputy 2022-2025)
- Founding spokesperson, doctoral programme "Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalisation", University of Innsbruck
- Founding Coordinator, Research Centre "Migration & Globalisation", University of Innsbruck
- Advisory Board, Research Area "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts"
- Corresponding member of the Scientific Advisory Board, European Forum Alpbach (2019-2022)
- International Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies VWI
- Head, Working Group Migration, House of History Austria, Vienna
- International Academic Advisory Board, House of History Austria, Vienna
- Speaker, Scientific Advisory Board, Documentation Centre Migration Tyrol, Innsbruck
- Scientific Advisory Board, Vielfaltenarchiv Vorarlberg, Dornbirn
- Advisory board, "Culture of Remembrance" funding programme, Province of Tyrol
- Working group to support historical research into welfare education in the Second Republic, Province of Tyrol
- Editorial Board, "zeitgeschichte", Vienna
- Advisory Board, "Contemporary Austrian Studies", New Orleans / Innsbruck
- Award committee, ÖAW scholarship programmes
- 2015-16 Scientific advisor for the project "Migration sammeln" at the Wien Museum
- 2014-17 Co-project leader "Arbeitsmigration in Südtirol seit dem Zweiten Autonomiestatut"
- 2014-16 Co-project leader "Historisches Lernen mit Videointerviews von NS-Überlebenden (Pilotstudie)"
- 2014-16 Co-project leader "Die Kinderbeobachtungsstation der Maria Nowak-Vogl. Interdisziplinäre Zugänge"
- 2012-15 Project leader, FWF project "Deprovincialising Contemporary Austrian History"
- 2012-14 Project manager, BMWF/"Sparkling Science" project "Spurensuche: Hall in Bewegung"
- 2009-11 Project manager, BMWF/"Sparkling Science" project "Transnationale Geschichtsbilder" (with trafo.K, Vienna)
Memberships
- Young Curia, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008-2016)
- Society for the History of Science GWG
- German Studies Association GSA
- American Historical Association AHA
- Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America ASCINA
Awards
- 2011 Geisteswissenschaften International - Prize for the Promotion of Translation of Works in the Humanities
- 2010 Promotion Prize of the Province of Tyrol for Science
- 2009 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Wiener Library, London
- 2004-07 APART Fellowship, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 and 2010 Charles H. Revson Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- 2000-01 Junior Fellowship, International Research Centre for Cultural Studies IFK, Vienna
Regional (Innsbruck / Tyrol)
- Tiroler Landesarchiv, Innsbruck
- Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck
- Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum, Innsbruck
- Stadtarchiv und Stadtmuseum Innsbruck
- Zentrum für Migrantinnen und Migranten in Tirol ZeMIT
- Initiative Minderheiten Tirol, Innsbruck
- Journalismus Festival, Innsbruck
- Internationales Film Festival Innsbruck iffi
- Israelitische Kultusgemeinde für Tirol und Vorarlberg, Innsbruck
- Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
National (Austria)
- Haus der Geschichte Österreich, Wien
- Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Wien
- Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien VWI
- Initiative Minderheiten im, Wien
- Österreichische Bundesbahnen ÖBB, Wien
- Wien Museum
- vorarlberg museum, Bregenz
- Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz
- Institut für Humanwissenschaften IWM, Wien
- trafo.K, Wien
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften ÖAW
- Migrationsforschung: Salzburg, Krems, Graz
- Österreichisches Netzwerk für Migrationsgeschichte ÖNM
International network
- DOMiD – Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland, Köln
- NS-Dokumentationszentrum, München
- Leibnitz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur-Simon Dubnow, Universität Leipzig
- International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
- European Forum, Hebrew University Jerusalem
- Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa University
- Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- The Europe Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
- Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley CA
- Center Austria, University of New Orleans