Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ernst Langthaler
eMail: ernst.langthaler@jku.at
Since 2016 Professor at the Institut für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte, JKU Linz
Education and Experience
- 1986 Secondary school teacher (Pädagogische Akademie Krems)
- 1995 Mag. phil. (University of Vienna)
- 2000 Dr. phil. (University of Vienna)
- 2010 Habilitation for economic and social history (University of Vienna)
- SS 2010 Guest professor of economic and social history (University of Innsbruck)
- WS 2010/11-WS 2011/12 Guest professor of economic and social history (University of Vienna)
- 2010 Secretary of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO)
- 2011 Director of the Institute of Rural History (St. Polten)
- 2016 Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich
- 2016 Professor for Social and Economic History at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Areas of Research
- Agrarian and nutritional history
- Rural environmental and social history
- Regional and global history
- Historical anthropology
- Social and cultural science methodology