Photographer: Diana Ruisz
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juliane Schiel
Teaching
Room: ZG201.80 (main building, staircase VI)
Telephone: +43 1 4277 – 41371
Office hours: Tuesday 1-2 pm - in semester breaks by arrangement.
Email: juliane.schiel@univie.ac.at
Professorship for Economic and Social History in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times
Vice-head of department since October 2024
Key Researcher of the Cluster of Excellence "Eurasian Transformations. Resources of the Past and Challenges of Diversity"
Co-Leader of the Erasmus Mundus Master „Global Studies“ (EMGS) at the University of Vienna
Vice-Dean for Research and International Affairs of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Research Interests
- Slavery in premodern Mediterranean
- Social dependencies in preindustrial Europe
- Unfree labour in global perspective
- Historical semantics
- Microhistory
- Entangled histories
Research Projects
- (with Michael Jursa, CoE EurAsian Transformations): Through the lens of coercion. Reassessing domestic power relations in Eurasian households
- (with Claude Chevaleyre, in preparation): The Social in Court. GRAPHing Eurasian Grammars of Coercion (GRAPH-GRAM)
Networks and Activities
- Key Researcher of the FWF Cluster of Excellence „EurAsian Transformations“ (since 2023)
- Co-Leader of the Erasmus Mundus Master „Global Studies“ (since 2023)
- Action Chair of the COST Action „Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK“ (WORCK), CA18205 (2019–2024)
- Co-Speaker for the research area „Global History“ of the University of Vienna (2018-2024), member since 2024
- Co-Coordinator of the working group „Free and Unfree Labour“ of the „European Labour History Network“ (International Institut for Social History, Amsterdam) (seit 2013-2019): https://socialhistoryportal.org/elhn/wg-unfree
- Member of the research area „Economy and Society“ of the University of Vienna (since 2018)
- Co-Editor of the book series „Sozial- und wirtschaftshistorische Studien“ at Böhlau (since 2018)
- Member of the working group „HiSem“ (Historical Semantics) (since 2010)
- Member of the „Société Internationale des Historiens de la Méditerranée“ (since 2012)
Selected Recent Publications
- Juliane Schiel/Claude Chevaleyre (Hg.), Work Semantics/Semantiken der Arbeit. Special Issue. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34,2 (2023). ISBN 978-3-7065-6308-6.
- Damian Pargas/Juliane Schiel (Hg.), Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History. Cham: Macmillan, 2023.
- Juliane Schiel, Tatort Tana. Die Rolle Lateineuropas in der Sklavenökonomie des Schwarzmeerraums (ca. 1300–1500), in: Historische Zeitschrift 313,1 (2021), 32–60.
- Juliane Schiel, The Ragusan “Maids-of-all-Work”. Shifting Labor Relations in the Late Medieval Adriatic Sea Region, in: Journal of Global Slavery 5,2 (2020), 139–169.
- Christian De Vito/Juliane Schiel/Matthias van Rossum, From Bondage to Precariousness. New Perspectives on Labor and Social History, in: Journal of Social History 54,2 (2020), 1-19.
- Julia Heinemann/Margareth Lanzinger/Juliane Schiel, Von der ‚Aneignung’ zur ‚Rekursion’. Drei Reflexionen zu Caroline Arnis Aufruf, in: Historische Anthropologie 27,2 (2019), 281-295.
- Juliane Schiel/Isabelle Schürch/Aline Steinbrecher, Von Sklaven, Pferden und Hunden. Trialog über den Nutzen aktueller Agency-Debatten für die Sozialgeschichte, in: Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Annuaire suisse d'histoire économique et sociale 32 (2017), 17-48.
- Brigitta Bernet/Juliane Schiel/Jakob Tanner, Jakob (Hg.), Arbeit in der Erweiterung (Historische Anthropologie 24,2), Wien/Köln/Weimar 2016.
- Doris Bulach/Juliane Schiel (Hg.), europas sklaven (WerkstattGeschichte 66-67), Essen 2015.
- Juliane Schiel, Slaves' Religious Choice in Renaissance Venice: Applying Insights from Missionary Narratives to Slave Baptism Records, in: Archivio Veneto 146 (2015), 23-45.
- Juliane Schiel, Sklavenbasar am Rialto. Das spätmittelalterliche Sklavengeschäft zwischen Marktlogik und Gabentausch, in: Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Annuaire suisse d'histoire économique et sociale 30 (2015), 179-197.
- Schiel, Juliane: Zwischen Panoramablick und Nahaufnahme. Wie viel Mikroanalyse braucht die Globalgeschichte?, in: T. Lohse/B. Scheller (Hg.), Europa in der Welt des Mittelalters, Berlin 2014, 119-140.
- Stefan Hanß/Juliane Schiel (Hg.), Mediterranean Slavery Revisited/Neue Perspektiven auf mediterrane Sklaverei, Zürich 2014.
- List of Publications (pdf)
Teaching