Contact

E-Mail: claudia.kraft@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-41207
Room 1I-01-24

Consultation-Hour
by appointment via mail: claudia.kraft@univie.ac.at
preferably online

Teaching

Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Claudia Kraft

Professor for Contemporary History

Deputy Head of Department

 

Claudia Kraft is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna since 2018. Before coming to Vienna she had worked at the University of Siegen as a Professor of Contemporary European History (2011-2018) and at the University of Erfurt as a Professor of Central and Eastern European History (2005-2011). She specializes in 20th century comparative European and particularly Central and Eastern European History. She is Co-Director of the "Research Center for the History of Transformations" (RECET) and and co-spokesperson for the research cluster "Democracy and Human Rights". She is Co-Editor of the following journals: "L'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft", "Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften" (OeZG) and the Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. Since 2020, she has represented the historical disciplines on the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In the summer semester of 2026, she will be conducting research as a senior fellow in the research group "Universalism and Particularism in Contemporary European History" at LMU Munich.

 

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Curriculum Vitae

Publications



Research topics

  • European Contemporary History in Comparative Perspective
  • History of Central and Eastern Europe since the 18th Century
  • Gender History
  • History of State Socialist Societies After World War II
  • Transnational 20th Century Legal History
  • Theory of History and Concepts of Area Studies


Selected publications

  • Gender as Analytical Lenses for Research on Social Transformations, in: The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation, edited by Jannis Panagiotidis, Philipp Ther, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, Rosamund T. Johnston, Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu, Sheng Peng, Anastassiya Schacht. London: Routledge, 2026, 173-184, DOI: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003303466-18/gender-analytical-lens-research-social-transformations-claudia-kraft.
  • (Geschlechter-)Gleichheit durch Vergleichen. Neubestimmungen auf der ersten UN-Weltfrauenkonferenz in Mexico-City, 1975, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 36 (2025) Nr. 2, S. 62-85, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2025-36-2-4.
  • [zusammen mit Tim Neu (Hrsg.)]: It’s complicated. Social Struggles and the Entanglement of Political Participation and Fundamental Rights (= Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 36/2025 Nr. 1). ISBN 978-3-7065-6458-8; ISSN 1016-765 X.


Current projects