University education: History and Ethnology at the University of Vienna (Mag. phil. 1985, Dr. phil. 1994), African History and American Women's History at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Fulbright award, M.A. 1987)
1987 research assistant at the Department of History of the University of Vienna (replacement)
1987-1989research assistant in projects of the Department of History of the University of Vienna (exhibition project on the history of women's suffrage, headed by Univ.Prof. Dr. Edith Saurer) and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (international conference and book on international and Austrian aspects of the "Anschluss" in March 1938, headed by Univ.Prof. Dr. Gerald Stourzh)
1989-1993research assistant for the Commission for Austrian History (since 1993 Historical Commission) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
since 1993university assistant, since 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Vienna
Feb.-April 2017Visiting Professor at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Awards
Fulbright student award, University of Minnesota 1985/86
legal and constitutional history of Europe and North America with a special focus on the history of suffrage
women's and gender history
history of migration with a focus on the legal status of foreigners
history of slavery (especially slave narratives)
comparative and transnational history
Projects
Supervisor of the Jubiläumsfondsproject of the Austrian National Bank Nr. 16774 at the Demokratiezentrum Wien: "Changing Concepts of Peace: An Analysis of the Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded 1901-2015" Conducted by: Susanne Reitmair-Juárez MA Length: 01.01.2016-30.06.2017
On the Legal Status of Foreigners: Aliens and Fundamental Rights in Austria and in an International Perspective, from the mid-18th Century to 1918
Reviews for the Czech Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Marietta Blau Stipendium, Stipendien für kurzfristige Aufenthalte der Aktion Österreich-Tschechien and various journals (Aspasia, Journal of Women's History, Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione)
