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Contact
E-Mail: caecilia.wosnitzka@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-41238
Room 1G-O1-30
Teaching
Mgr. Cäcilia Wosnitzka, BA MA
Praedoc
Cäcilia Wosnitzka is a university assistant (praedoc) at the University of Vienna's Department of Contemporary History in the field of work of the professorship for cultural, knowledge and gender history of Prof. Mag. Dr. Claudia Kraft (since 1 April 2024).
Wosnitzka completed a bachelor's degree in cultural studies in Hildesheim in 2018 and a German-Polish dual master’s degree in European Studies from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2021. They graduated with a queer-historical MA thesis on transnational homosexual rights activism during the Cold War, which was awarded the distinction of the “Scientific Promotion Prize of the Polish Ambassador under the patronage of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2022/2023”.
Cäcilia Wosnitzka is fellow of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies (DSHCS) at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna) and a member of the Key Research Area Democracy and Human Rights.
Their research project examines biographies, social networks and migrant organisations of individuals who migrated from (the People’s Republic of) Poland to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) between 1968 and 1993. It analyses the activities of these individuals and grous, which can be largely described as related to diaspora and asylum policies. The project thereby addresses the following questions:
How can migrant participation in the FRG be situated within historiographical scholarship on democracy? What strategies, forms of expression, and arenas of influence did the historical actors employ to pursue their objectives? Which forms of participation did the FRG enable, and which did it restrict or deny? Finally, how does the participation of migrants relate to issues of gender, class, confession or residential status? Drawing on oral histories, organizational archives, and community media as well as state documents, the study contributes to historical scholarship on migrant organizations, participation of non-citizens and the relation of migration and democracy within the German immigration society.
As part of this research project, Wosnitzka received a doctoral grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation (04/2023-03/2024) as well as research fellowships from the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig (2022) and the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Warsaw (2025,2026).
Memberships
- Junge DGO/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde e.V.
- Gemeinschaft für studentischen Austausch in Mittel- und Osteuropa (GFPS) e.V. (zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement)
Key research areas
- Contemporary migration studies / Historiography of immigration societies
- Entangled history of Central and Eastern Europe, Poland and (West) Germany
- Queer, gender and democratic history
- Queer/feminist epistemologies
- Theories of space