Dr.in Sarah Knoll, BA MA
Sarah Knoll is a historian. She studied history with a special focus on contemporary history at the University of Vienna. She completed her PhD at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna in 2022 with the dissertation “Austria and Cold War refugees from the Communist Bloc (1956 – 1990). Aid organizations in the spotlight”. Her PhD was funded by a DOC-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a Wrap-up Scholarship from the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2018, she was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Previously, she worked as a research associate at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in a research project on the biography of the communist resistance fighter Franz Marek and in an edition project on Austria and the German Reunification between 1987 and 1990. At the University of Vienna she is part of the research group New Cold War Studies. She is editor of HSoZ-Kult for ‘Austrian/Habsburg History, Southeast Europe’.
Her current research project focuses on the history of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and analyses development aid between humanitarian aid and technical assistance.
Research Interests
- Austrian Contemporary History
- Migration and the Cold War
- International Organizations and NGOs
- Humanitarianism and humanitarian aid in the 20th century
- History of the Prater in Vienna