Contakt
Mail: lucile.dreidemy@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-41222

Teaching

Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Lucile Dreidemy, MA

Professor of Contemporary History (Austrian Contemporary History since 1918 in an International Context)

 
Lucile Dreidemy is a historian and German studies scholar. She has held the professorship for Austrian Contemporary History since 1918 in an international context at the University of Vienna since 1 October 2024.

She was previously Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of German Studies at the Université Toulouse II (since 2014) and also worked as a post-doc assistant (until 1 March 2023) and then as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna (since 2019).
In 2024, she habilitated with a thesis on "International Politics without State Actors? The Vienna Institute for Development Questions and the Social Democratic North-South Networks in the Global Cold War".

Lucile Dreidemy has taught and conducted research at several other international universities, including a stint as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago's History Department in 2013 and a stint at Harvard University's Center for European Studies in 2018-19. She is on the editorial boards of the journals zeitgeschichte and Austriaca and coordinates the New Cold War Studies research group at the University of Vienna.
Since 2023, she has also been a member of the Works council of the scientific staff at the University of Vienna.

Member of the editorial board of the journal zeitgeschichte

Co-initiator of the research group New Cold War Studies

Habilitation project: International Politics without State Actors? The example of development policy in Germany and Austria from the 1960s

Current editorial project: Lucile Dreidemy/Johannes Knierzinger/David Mayer/Clemens Pfeffer (eds.): Voices of Anti-colonialism. A global historical collection of evidence 1615-1917, Vienna: Mandelbaum 2025.