Elisabeth Czerniak, BA MA
Doctoral researcher (prae doc) with the ERC research group GLORE – "Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)"
Current project:
Hubs of Resettlement: The Case of Shanghai
Contact:
E-Mail: elisabeth.czerniak@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-41246
Curriculum Vitae and list of publications
Elisabeth Czerniak is a historian of contemporary history specialising in global migration history and forced migration in the context of Nazi persecution and expulsion policies.
Her dissertation project is titled "Vom sicheren Hafen zum Startpunkt einer erneuten Odyssee? Shanghai als Drehscheibe für Repatriierung und Resettlement von Displaced Persons zwischen 1945 und 1951". It examines the location- and time-specific migration regimes and their effects on global migration movements. Central to this are questions about the agency and strategies of the actors involved.
Elisabeth Czerniak's previous research focused on the mobility experiences induced by violence of the Basch brothers and examined in particular the biographical effects in her master's thesis. She completed the interdisciplinary master's programme "Contemporary History and Media" at the University of Vienna and had previously completed a bachelor's degree in political science.
Key Research Topics
- Global Migration History and Forced Migration
- National Socialism, especially Persecution, Expulsion and Forced Labour
- Exile Research
- Biography Research
- Memory Cultures and Politics of the Past