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Priv.Doz. Dr. Philipp Luis Strobl

University Assistant (Postdoc)


Philipp Strobl is a university assistant (postdoc) at the Professorship for Comparative Dictatorship, Violence and Genocide Studies at the Department for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. In the summer semester of 2024, he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic) and in the winter semester of 2022/23 a Visiting Professor of National Socialism and the Holocaust with a focus on Austrian contemporary history at the University of Vienna. Strobl was involved in the project "Norms, Regulation and Refugee Agency: Negotiating the Regime" at the Department for Contemporary History and is an associated researcher of the ERC research group GLORE – "Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)".

Strobl was previously a research associate at the Department of History at the University of Hildesheim. He has extensive international experience and has been employed at the University of Innsbruck (2018), Swinburne University in Melbourne (2016-2018), the University of Economics in Bratislava (2011-2015) and the University of New Orleans (2009-2010).
His key research topics are in the field of migration history and the history of knowledge. Strobl is the author and/or editor of various monographs, journal articles and anthologies. His current book is in the field of migration history inspired by the history of knowledge and will be published by Brill in late 2024 in the series "Studies in Global Migration History" under the title "Refugees from National Socialism in Australia – A History of Displaced Knowledge".
Since April 202 202, he has been leading a teaching and publication project funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, which, among other things, is developing and publishing the annual historical scientific journal "Historia Prima".
Together with Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki, he is also the founder and editor of the science podcast Transit – the podcast on migration history.

Curriculum Vitae
List of publications

Key Research Topics

  • Comparative Modern and Contemporary European History
  • Migration History
  • History of Knowledge
  • Biographics