Julia Carrera, MA

Researcher in a joint project between the Department of Contemporary History and the IHSF with the working title "Out of cover. Muriel Gardiner und Joseph Buttinger. A political double biography"

 

Contact
E-Mail: brandstaetter.julia@univie.ac.at


Julia Carrera is a political scientist and doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna and the Technical University of Munich. Her dissertation project focuses on the biographies of Joseph Buttinger and Muriel Gardiner, examining their anti-fascist resistance activities, experiences of exile, and scholarly-political work in a transnational context after 1945. Particular attention is given to Gardiner’s contribution to the dissemination and popularization of Freudian psychoanalysis in the United States, as well as to Buttinger’s role as an “organic intellectual” who rose from a working-class background to become a Vietnam expert and presidential advisor.Professionally, Julia Carrera works at the intersection of research and public history, most recently as Content Manager for wasbishergeschah.at, a collaborative project between the University of Vienna and the Austrian Chamber of Labour. In 2021, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Social Research (IHSF) on the project Political Repression in Carinthia 1933–1938. As a board member of the WerkStattMuseum at the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky House in Klagenfurt/Celovec and as a curator (most recently: Code Name “Mary”: The Extraordinary Life of Muriel Gardiner), she is also active in the field of memory culture.

 

Key research topics

  • Biographical research
  • Resistance and exile
  • History of the labor movement
  • Public history
  • Cold War

 

Publications

  • Kärnten und die Schicksalsjahre 1989/91, gemeinsam mit Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler, in: Umbruch- und Wendejahre. Österreichs Bundesländer und ihre Nachbarn 1989/91, hrsg. von Andrea Brait und Michael Gehler, Wien: Böhlau 2024.
  • Code name ‚Mary‘: Das außergewöhnliche Leben von Muriel Gardiner (= Publikation zur Ausstellung), gemeinsam mit Carol Seigel, Herbert Posch, Markus Stumpf und Florian Wenninger, hrsg. von Freud Museum London und Institut für Historische Sozialforschung, Wien 2024.
  • Ilsa Barea, Wien. Legende & Wirklichkeit, hrsg. und übersetzt gemeinsam mit Gernot Trausmuth, mit einem Nachwort von Georg Pichler, Wien: Edition Atelier 2021. Übersetzungsstipendium der Stadt Wien.
  • Linkspopulismus als Mobilisierungslogik, in: Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Hg.), ASPR Report – Welt im Umbruch: Perspektiven für Friedenspolitik in Europa zwischen konkreten Handlungsoptionen und realistischer Utopie, 1/2018, 28–34.