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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
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