I am a historian with a background in social sciences and experience in public history projects. My main research interests include transnational perspectives on 20th century Central and Southeastern European history, interwar fascism, labor and gender history.
In my dissertation project, I investigate the expansion and authoritarian reorganization of labor arbitration during Austrofascism (1933-1938), to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between fascism and workers.
Currently (January-December 2025), I am visiting scholar at the Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. This stay is funded by the Marietta Blau-Grant, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research.
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Publications (Selection):
Eine ‚vaterländische‘ Arbeiterbewegung? Integrationspolitiken im Austrofaschismus am Beispiel der Sozialen Arbeitsgemeinschaft (SAG) [A ‘Fatherland’ Labor Movement? The Social Working Committee (SAG) as an Example of Integration Policies during Austrofascism], in: zeitgeschichte 52 (2025) 1, 63–85. (peer-reviewed)
Die Arbeiter*innenschaft nach den Februarkämpfen. Austrofaschistische Integrationspolitiken und berufsständischer Aufbau [The Workers after the February Fights. Austrofascist Integration Politics and the Corporatist Restructuring of Society], in: Austrofaschismus und Februarkämpfe, edited by Verein Bündnis 12. Februar, 67–92. Vienna: Böhlau, 2025.
“What’s your take on Violence?” A Key Question for the International Left in its Historical-Political Context, Conference Report, in: H-Soz-Kult, October 24, 2024. >LINK
Aus den Akten des Bezirksgerichtes Mattersburg. Politische Verfolgung in den 1930er Jahren [Political Repression during the 1930s. Insights into the Mattersburg District Court Files], Exhibition Catalogue, 70er Haus der Geschichten, Mattersburg/Austria, August 2023.
Katholische Frauen im Austrofaschismus. Das Recht auf Erwerbsarbeit für alle Frauen? [Catholic Women during Austrofascism. The Right to Wage Labor for all Women?], in: fernetzt blog (November 2022). >LINK
Umkämpftes Wohnen. Sozialer Wohnbau rund um die Schmelz: Ein Spaziergang durch Geschichte und Gegenwart [Contested Housing. Social and Communal Housing Projects around the Schmelz. A Walk through Past and Present], in: Kunst am Gemeinde-Bau. Ein Projekt für den Franz Novy Hof in Wien, edited by Jan Svenungsson and Flora Zimmeter, Edition Angewandte, 62–68. Basel: Birkhäuser 2022; together with Eva Kettner-Gössler.
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