Department of Contemporary History

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Education and Work Experience

• University of Innsbruck, BA Degree Program in History and Selected Subjects, Mag. phil. (M.phil) 1995, Dr. phil. (Ph.D.) 2005
• Eastern Illinois University, Charleston IL, USA, Master Degree Program in History, MA 1994
• Research Assistant, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 1996–1999
• 1999–2010 Researcher and Lecturer (Universitätsassistentin), Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
• since September 2010 Assistant Professor, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 
• since July 2016 Associate Professor, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 

Fields of Research and Teaching

European and Regional Contemporary History, Holocaust Studies, Memory and Politics of Memory, Migration, Digital Humanities

Professional Services

• Deputy Head Institute of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
• Deputy Head Research Center Digital Humanities, University of Innsbruck
• Digital Media Representative, Department of Philosophy and History, University of Innsbruck
• 2009–11 Member of the trinational task force MEDIDA-PRIX 2011
• Reviewer for the Mediendidaktischen Hochschulpreis 2007 and member of the international jury MEDIDA-PRIX 2008, Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW)
• Reviewer for Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte and H-Soz-u-Kult 

Honors, Awards & Fellowships

• 2014 Lehreplus! Award for Teaching Excellence 2014 together with Gunda Barth-Scalmani and Irene Madreiter for http://historia.scribere.at
  
• 2012 Global Ambassador Award, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, USA
• 2010 Research Award for the research project „Holocaust and genocide websites between media discourse, politics of memory and politicking“, University of Innsbruck
• 1997–99 Research Grant, Verein zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung und Tätigkeit von Südtirolern an der Landesuniversität Innsbruck, Bozen-Innsbruck, Italy-Austria

Memberships

• Gesellschaft für Medien in den Wissenschaften
• The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History
• Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
• Arbeitsgruppe Regionalgeschichte/gruppo storia e regione
  
• Michael-Gaismair-Gesellschaft

Selected Publications

• Performing the Holocaust on social networks: digitality, transcultural memory and new forms of narrating, in: Kultura Popularna 51 (2017), 1, S. 136-151 (DOI)

• with Dirk Rupnow, einheimisch-zweiheimisch-mehrheimisch. Geschichte(n) der neuen Migration in Südtirol. Bozen: Edition Raetia 2017 (Link zum Buch)

• with Walter Obwexer, 70 Jahre Pariser Vertrag: Handbuch, Wien: Verlag Österreich 2017 (Link zum Buch)

• Die amerikanische Besatzungszeit in Südtirol, in: Obwexer/Pfanzelter (Hg.), 70 Jahre Pariser Vertrag (Text)

• At the Crossroads with Public History: Mediating the Holocaust on the Internet: Holocaust A JournalStudies. of Culture and History, 21/4, 2015, S. 250-271 (DOI)

• Inszenierung - Vernetzung - Performanz: Holocaust Repräsentationen im Nezt, in: Iris Roebling Grau/Dirk Rupnow (Hrsg.), Holocaust-Fiktion. Kunst jenseits der Authentizität, München-Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5505-5  Weblink

• Option und Gedächtnis. Erinnerungsorte an die Südtiroler Umsiedlung 1939, Bozen 2014. ISBN: 978-88-7283-507-4 

• Ed., Option und Erinnerung, Geschichte und Region/storia e regione 22 (2013),  no. 2, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2014. ISBN: 978-3-7065-5276-9   

• Since 2008 Editor with Gunda Barth-Scalmani/Irene Madreiter, online Journal historia.scribere, [http://historia.scribere.at]: Nr. 1 (2009), Nr. 2 (2010), Nr. 3 (2011), Nr. 4 (2012), Nr. 5 (2013), Nr. 6 (2014), Nr. 7 (2015) [peer reviewed]

• with Ingrid Böhler/Thomas Spielbüchler/Rolf Steininger (eds.), 7. Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 2008. 1968 – Vorgeschichten – Folgen. Bestandsaufnahme der österreichischen Zeitgeschichte, Innsbruck – Wien – Bozen 2010. ISBN: 978-3-7065-4867-0  

• with Böhler, Ingrid/Steininger, Rolf (eds.), Stationen im 20. Jahrhundert (Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte 27), Innsbruck – Wien – Bozen 2011. ISBN: 978-3-7065-5008-6  

• Südtirol unterm Sternenbanner. Die amerikanische Besatzung Mai-Juni 1945. Mit Fotodokumentation und DVD, Bozen 2005. ISBN: 978-88-7283-251-6  

Research Projects

• NewsEye: A Digital Investigator for Historical Newspapers, H2020 CULT-C-2017

• Labour Migration in South Tirol since the Second Autonomy Statute 1972; funded by the Autonome Provinz Bozen Südtirol, Italy [2014–2017]; project leader (with Dirk Rupnow)
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  http://zeitgeschichte-suedtirolmigration.uibk.ac.at

• South Tirol and the “Option” of 1939: Perception, Memory and Rememberance, Presentation in Museums and Exhibitions; funded by the Österreichischen Nationalbank, http://www.optionunderinnerung.org/ (2013–2015); project leader

• Holocaust and Genocide Websites Between Media Discourse, Politics of Memory and Politicking, book project, habilitation/postdoctoral qualification (manuscript submitted for review)
  

• since 2008 editor with Gunda Barth-Scalmani and Irene Madreiter, Online journal historia.scribere, [http://historia.scribere.at]: Nr. 1 (2009), Nr. 2 (2010), Nr. 3 (2011), Nr. 4 (2012), Nr. 5 (2013), Nr. 6 (2014), Nr. 7 (2015), Nr. 8 (2016), Nr. 9 (2017), Nr. 10 (2018), Nr. 11 (2019)
  

• with Peter Haber, "historyblogosphere", the first German-language Open Peer Review book project, München 2013, open access:  http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/216968?rskey=EzC9Xy&result=1%20 

  Review: http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-21319

 

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