Research Projects

VenHisCred: Venetian Historiography and Public Credit 1200–1600

  • Project beginning: October 2025
  • Project ending: September 2028

Running the Brenner Road: Custom Duties & Tolls (18th C.)

  • Project beginning: June 2025
  • Project ending: November 2028

Rethinking "dissonant heritages" of the old & new world

  • Project beginning: February 2025
  • Project ending: January 2030

Categorizing, Registering and Reporting of Mobility and Stay

  • Project beginning: December 2024
  • Project ending: January 2028

Decentralizing central banks. The branch offices of the Austrian and Prussian banks of issue 1815-80 

  • Project beginning: October 2024
  • Project ending: September 2027

ALPINNKONNECT: Agents of Logistics and Infrastructure in Eighteenth Century Alpine Transit Traffic (AdG)

  • Project beginning: October 2024
  • Project ending: September 2029

Noble Siblings: Wealth Arrangements & Social Configurations (follow-up project)

  • Project beginning: October 2024
  • Project ending: September 2026

Abnormal Motherhoods: Precariousness, Sterility and Anxiety in 20th and 21st Century Spanish Cinema

  • Project beginning: September 2024
  • Project ending: September 2026

Mining the Earth, Roaming the Globe

  • Project beginning: July 2024
  • Project ending: June 2027

Austria's nationalized industry since 1946

  • Project beginning: July 2024
  • Project ending: June 2028

Datarev: Leading the first data revolution in European agriculture: farm accountancy data and their impact 1870-1945

  • Project beginning: September 2021
  • Project ending: August 2026

 

Finished Projects

Third-Mission-Projekt „Stimmen aus dem Exil“

  • Project beginning: November 2023
  • Project ending: October 2024


Noble Siblings: Wealth Arrangements & Social Configurations from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

  • Project beginning: October 2021
  • Project ending: September 2024

BERINGIA: ANCIENT MIGRATION, DATA COLLECTIONS, AND THE SHAPE OF SCIENCE

  • Project Beginning: November 2020
  • Project Ending: October 2023

 

The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces from 16th to the 18th Century

  • Project Beginning: August 2020
  • Project Ending: July 2023


Ko-Produktion und Gebrauch von Identitätsdokumenten. Habsburgermonarchie/Österreich ca. 1850 bis 1938.

  • Project Beginning: September 2019
  • Project Ending: July 2024

Verflechtungen zwischen der DDR und Cuba: Mobilität, Austauschbeziehungen und Kreisläufe innerhalb des Rats für Gemeinsame Wirtschaftshilfe (RGW)

  • Project Beginning: December 2019
  • Project Ending: November 2022

Österreichische Staatsbedienstete und deren standesgemäße Lebensführung (1918 – 1940)

  • Project Beginning: January 2017
  • Project Ending: May 2023

 Hungarian Economic Policy between Compromise and EU-Membership

  • Projekt Beginning: June 2021
  • Projekt Ending: June 2022


Pornography in Austria: Political debates and media discussions during the long sexual revolution, 1950s to early 1980s

  • Projekt Beginning: October 2019
  • Projekt Ending: September 2022

“The Radio Reports of the United States Information Agency (USIA) for Austria 1953-1979: US American Self-perception and Austrian Outside Perception”

  • Projekt Beginning: March 2019
  • Projekt Ending: March 2021

Trans-Continental circulations within the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance. The example of labour mobility between Cuba and the GDR (1975-1990)

  • Project Beginning: July 2018
  • Projekt Ending: November 2019

The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces from the 16th to the 18th Century / Vermögen als Medium der Herstellung von Verwandtschaftsräumen vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert

  • Project Beginning: September 2016
  • Project Ending: January 2020

Prices and Wages in Salzburg and Vienna: c. 1450–1850 / Preise und Löhne in Salzburg und Wien, 1450–1850

  • Project Beginning: August 2017
  • Project Ending: July 2020

Polyamorie in medialer, sozialer und Identitätsperspektive

  • Project Beginning: February 2016
  • Project Ending: January 2019

Doktoratskolleg Galizien (Das österreichische Galizien und sein multikulturelles Erbe)

  • Project Beginning: 1. November 2015
  • Project Ending: 31. October 2018

Die Konstruktion weiblicher und männlicher Homosexualität in österreichischen Gerichtsakten des 20. Jahrhunderts / The Construction of Female and Male Homosexuality in Files of Criminal Court Procedures from the 20thCentury in Austria

  • Project Beginning: October 2014
  • Project Ending: September 2017

Die Emotionalisierung nationaler Marken im österreichischen Werbefilm 1950-2000 / The Emotionalisation of National Brands in Austrian Commercials 1950-2000

  • Project Beginning: January 2015
  • Project Ending: September 2018

Selbermachen im Konsumzeitalter. Werte, Ordnungsvorstellungen und Praktiken zwischen den 1890er und den 1980er Jahren / Making Things Oneself in an Age of Consumption. Values, Social Orders, and Practices from the 1890s to the 1980s

  • Project Beginning: February 2015
  • Project Ending: January 2016

Busy Tenants: Rural Land Markets North and South the Alps in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Times / Ländliche Bodenmärkte nördlich und südlich der Alpen im Spätmittelalter und am Beginn der frühen Neuzeit

  • Project Beginning: December 2013
  • Project Ending: November 2016

Die Beherrschung der Aktiengesellschaft. Politische Ökonomie, Gesetze, Statuten und die wirtschaftlichen Effekte von Corporate Governance in Deutschland, ca. 1860-1940

  • Project Beginning: October 2012
  • Project Ending: June 2016

Entsandte Expert/inn/en von Entwicklungshilfe und Sozialistischer Hilfe in Zeiten der Systemkonkurrenz

  • Project Beginning: September 2013
  • Project Ending: August 2016

Die Mobilitätskontrolle von osmanischen Migranten in der Habsburgermonarchie, 1739-1791. Ein Schritt zu moderner Staatlichkeit?

  • Project Beginning: July 2013
  • Project Ending: June 2015

Handling Diversity. Medieval Europe and India in Comparison (13th-18th Centuries CE).

  • Project Beginning: May 2012
  • Project Ending: May 2015

Selbermachen im Konsumzeitalter. Werte, Ordnungsvorstellungen und Praktiken zwischen den 1890er und den 1980er Jahren / Making Things Oneself in an Age of Consumption. Values, Social Orders, and Practices from the 1890s to the 1980s

  • Project Beginning: February 2015
  • Project Ending: January 2016

Scholarship and Politics, Reshaping South-Central Europe, 1939-1945

  • Project Beginning: March 2011
  • Project Ending:    March 2014

Seidenfieber. Luxusstoffe, schöne Leute und großes Kapital im mittelalterlichen Europa

  • Project Beginning: April 2010
  •  Project Ending: March 2014

Aktienerstemissionen und Kapitalmarktentwicklung im Deutschen Reich,1871-1938

  • Project Beginning: April 2008
  • Project Ending: March 2014

The Production of Work. Welfare, Labour-Market and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938)

  • Project Beginning: February 2008
  • Project Ending:    October 2013

Jewish Migration and Diversity in Vienna and Berlin (1881-1918)

  • Project Beginning: December 2010
  • Project Ending: February 2013

Jewish Migration and Integration in Vienna and Berlin  (1867/71 – 1918). A Comparative Research

  • Project Beginning: February 2007
  • Project Ending:    October 2010

Gedächtnisort Historisches Museum

  • Project Beginning: March 2008
  • Project Ending:    February 2010