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

Office hours
By appointment via email

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. Since 1 October 2024, she has held the professorship for “Austrian Contemporary History since 1918 in an International Context” at the University of Vienna.

Previously, she was Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of German Studies at the Université Toulouse II (since 2014) and also worked at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, first as a post-doc assistant (until 1 March 2023) and later as a senior lecturer (2019–24). In 2024, she completed her Habilitation 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 as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago's History Department in 2013 and 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 for the scientific staff at the University of Vienna.

Co-initiator of the research group New Cold War Studies

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. (german: Stimmen des Antikolonialismus. Eine globalhistorische Spurensammlung 1615-1917)