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 and corporatism, labor and gender history.
In my dissertation, I investigate labor arbitration during Austrofascism (1933–38), taking into account the four most important institutions responsible for the (extra-)judicial settlement of individual and collective labor disputes (Gewerbegerichte, Einigungsämter, Heimarbeitskommissionen, berufständische Ausschüsse). I embed my topic within a framework of comparative fascism, taking as a starting point the simultaneity of repressive and integrative measures towards the working class. I analyze how regime actors intended to reform the existing system of labor arbitration in the context of the planned implementation of a Corporatist State, how labor arbitration actually worked on the ground in the context of an ongoing economic crisis and the authoritarian reorganization of society, and how workers from different genders and occupational backgrounds could use the labor arbitration bodies to negotiate their demands and defend their rights.
During my studies, I have been a visiting scholar at the Department of History, University of Vienna (January–April 2022, supervised by Professor Gabriella Hauch) and at the Department of Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara (January–December 2025, supervised by Professor Eileen Boris, funded with the Marietta Blau-Grant by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research).
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Recent Publications
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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