Education

• 1994 Mag. phil. (University of Vienna)
• 2001 Dr. phil. (University of Vienna)
• 2015 Habilitation (University of Vienna)

Areas of Research

• work and non-work
• the history of crafts, trades and trade policy
• autobiographical accounts and the life course 
• mobility/migration
• social policy and the welfare state
• criminality, practices of police and courts
• practices of identification and registration, bureaucratic encounters

Externally Funded Projects

• Co-Producing and Using Identity Documents. Habsburg Monarchy/Austria ca. 1850-1938. (FWF-Projekt P 32226-G29)

Selected Publications

• Contracts under Duress. Work Documents as a Matter and Means of Conflict in the Habsburg Monarchy/Austria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. In: Anamarija Batista, Viola Franziska Müller, Corinna Peres (Hg.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art. London (UCL) 2024, 51-76.
• Papers and Wages: Identity Documents and Work in Habsburg Austria During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. In: Massimo Asta, Pedro Ramos Pinto (Hg.): The Value of Work since the 18th Century. Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney (Bloomsbury Academic) 2023, 83-103. Version of record
• Negotiating the Right of Residence (Austria, Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century). In: Beate Althammer (Hg.): Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights – Historical Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century. London (Routledge) 2023, 33-53. Accepted version
• Der Arbeit nachgehen? Auseinandersetzungen um Lebensunterhalt und Mobilität (Österreich 1880-1938). Wien, Köln, Weimar 2021 („Industrielle Welt“, herausgegeben vom Arbeitskreis für moderne Sozialgeschichte, Bd. 99). (Böhlau)
• Sigrid Wadauer (Hg.): Die Erzeugung von Arbeit. Variationen, Unterschiede und Hierarchien von Erwerb und Unterhalt. Berlin, Boston (De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2023.
• Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner, Alexander Mejstrik (eds.): The History of Labor Intermediation. Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. New York, Oxford Berghahn 2015 (= International Studies in Social History Volume 26).
• Die Tour der Gesellen. Mobilität und Biographie im Handwerk vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt a. M., New York 2005 (= Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft Bd. 30).
• Alexander Mejstrik, Therese Garstenauer, Peter Melichar, Alexander Prenninger, Christa Putz, Sigrid Wadauer: Berufsschädigungen in der nationalsozialistischen Neuordnung der Arbeit. Vom österreichischen Berufsleben 1934 zum völkischen Schaffen 1938-1940. Wien, München 2004

publication list: https://www.sigridwadauer.com/publications/

Teaching

• Exam schedule

• Information about the pending and completed diploma- and master theses and dissertations