Teresa Petrik, BA BA MA

eMail: teresa.petrik@univie.ac.at

assoc. PhD student

Current PhD project: „Invalide, Soldatenweiber, vagierende ‚Gartgeher‘: (Post-)Militärische Marginalität und Armenversorgung in der frühneuzeitlichen Habsburgermonarchie, 1680–1790“ (Arbeitstitel)

CV (in German, pdf)


Education

  • since 2025 PhD student in History, University of Vienna
  • 2020-2024 Master’s Degree in History. University of Vienna and Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • 2015 - 2019 Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Political Science University of Vienna

Professional Experience

  • since 2024 Research associate (prae-doc) in the FWF project ‘The Emergence of the In/valids in the Habsburg Monarchy’ (project leader: Dr Julia Heinemann) at the Institute of Economic and Social History at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • 2024-2025 Research assistant at the Institute for the History of Rural Areas (IGLR), St. Pölten
  • 2020-2024 Project Assistant at the Department of Economic and Social History, COST Action “Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK)”
  • 2018-2022 Tutor at the Department of Political Science and at the Department for Sociology, University of Vienna
  • 2018-2020 Student Assistant and project team member in the project "Pathways to the future -  A longitudinal study on the social integration of young people in Vienna" at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna (Project lead: Prof. Jörg Flecker)
  • 07/2018 Internship at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
  • 08/2017 - 07/2021 Student Assistant at the Department of Government, University of Vienna

Areas of Research

  • Social History of the Habsburg Monarchy in the early modern period
  • History of abour, poverty and poor relief
  • Prison and penal history, penitentiaries and workhouses