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Mag. Dr. David Mayer

Teaching

Room: ZG 201.81
Telephone: +43 1 4277 41368
Office hours: by appointment

eMail: david.mayer@univie.ac.at

 


 

David Mayer (1976) is currently affiliated as researcher to the project “Tackling Empire: The Post-Imperial and the Colonial in Austria and Hungary, 1918–1939”, a bilateral Austro-Hungarian research project co-hosted by the Department of Contemporary History/University of Vienna. 

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-9819

Education

  • 2003 Mag. phil. (Universität Wien)
  • 2012 Dr. phil. (Universität Wien)

Research Interests

  • Global intellectual history
    • History of left-wing intellectuals and Marxist historiographies
    • The Austrian School of Economics and the socialist calculation debates
    • Anticolonialism
  • Global Labour History
  • History of social movements, particularly in Latin America
  • History of historiography
  • History of Marxisms 

Networks and Activities

  • Vice-President of the ITH – International Conference of Labour and Social History.
  • Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
  • Corresponding editor of the International Review of Social History (Amsterdam).
  • Member of the advisory board of Archivos – de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda (Buenos Aires).
  • Member oft the advisory board of Arbeiter – Bewegung – Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien.
  • Member of the advisory board of Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores.

Selected publications

  • Stimmen des Antikolonialismus. Eine globalhistorische Spurensammlung 1615–1917, Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2025 (co-edited together with Lucile Dreidemy, Johannes Knierzinger, and Clemens Pfeffer).
  • Nah-ferne Kontrahenten. Mises, die Entstehung der sozialistischen Kalkulationsdebatte und der Nachlass im Moskauer Fonds. Working-Paper-Reihe der AK Wien Nr. 252, Vienna 2024, https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:at-akw:g-6764465.
  • Changing Degrees of ‘Openness’: Some Considerations on the Development of the Notion of ‘Work’ in Argentinean Labour Historiography. In: Moving the Social 69 (2023), 95–112, DOI: 10.46586/mts.69.2023.95-112.
  • Die österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie als politische Strömung. Working‐Paper‐Reihe der AK Wien Nr. 220, Vienna 2021, emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/toc/AC16197783/1/ (together with Berthold Molden).
  • Labour Internationalism in Context Small and Large. In: Stefano Bellucci and Holger Weiss (eds.), The Internationalisation of the Labour Question. Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movements and the ILO since 1919, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2020, 411-420 (together with Marcel van der Linden), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28235-6_18.
  • Latin America and the Caribbean. In: Karin Hofmeester/Linden, Marcel van der (Hg.), Handbook Global History of Work, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston 2017, 95–121 (together with Rossana Barragán), DOI: 10.1515/9783110424584-005.
  • Brazilian Labour History – new perspectives in global context. International Review of Social History, vol. 62, Special Issue 25 (2017) (co-edited together with Paulo Fontes and Alexandre Fortes).
  • In the search of cohesion – a comment on „The Third World in the Global 1960s“ by S. Christiansen and Z.A. Scarlett. In: Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relation 11 (2017), Themenheft „Circulations révolutionnaires dans les années 1968“, ed. by Ludivine Bantigny, Boris Gobille, and Eugénia Palieraki, 210–217, DOI: 10.3917/mond1.171.0205.
  • À la fois puissante et marginale: l’Internationale communiste et l’Amérique latine. In: Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations 10 (2016), Special Theme “Dimension transnationale du communism”, ed. by Brigitte Studer und Sabine Dullin, 109-128, DOI: 10.3917/mond1.162.0109.
  • Coming to terms with the past, getting a grip on the future – Manfred Kossok’s interventions into historiographical debates about Latin America during the radicalized 1960s. In: Review, A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 38-1/2 (2015), 15-39, , www.jstor.org/stable/90017834.
  • Gute Gründe und doppelte Böden. Zur Geschichte ‚linker‘ Geschichtsschreibung. In: Sozial.Geschichte Online 14 (2014), 62–96, duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-37518/05_Mayer_History.pdf.

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