Dr.ⁱⁿ Maddalena Guiotto

Senior Research Fellow

Contact
Mail: maddalena.guiotto@gmail.com
 

Since completing her Ph.D. at the University of Pavia, Maddalena Guiotto has conducted research and lectured at a number of universities and scholarly institutions in both Italy and Austria, amongst others at the Italo-German historical institute in Trento and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She was lecturer for the history of the German-speaking countries at the University of Udine/Gorizia and taught contemporary Italian history at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Vienna. She authored and edited a number of books and articles, dealing with the relations between Austria and Italy viz. Germany and Italy.

Focus of research

• International relations of the 20th century
• Austrian, Italian and German history of the 19th and 20th century
• Italians within the Habsburg Monarchy 
• Cultural aspects of Central European relations 
  
  

Current projects

• „A History of Austria in the 20th Century“
  Austrian history of the last hundred years is almost unknown in Italy. That’s why it makes sense to write an Austrian history after 1918 in Italian, mainly dealing with political history, but without ignoring economic and cultural aspects. What should be stressed is the unique position Austria occupied in many respects, its history being characterized by a sometimes bewildering complexity of events and upheavals. 
• „The common legacy of Habsburg History and its Importance for Central European identity up to the present“
  This project will require cooperation with many other institutions. As a first step it is envisaged to collaborate with DDr. Peter Techet from the Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa.