Third-party funded projects
Forging Wartime Biopolitics: Militarized Refugees’ Bodies and Environments in WWI Eastern Europe
Lead: Kerstin von Lingen
Project team: Liana Popa, Magdalena Hyllus
Project partners: Dr. Oksana Nagornaia (Humbolt Universität Brüssel), Dr. Kamil Ruszała
Funding: FWF (PIN5060524: WEAVE)
Duration: 1.1.2026 – 31.12.2028
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War refugee from the Polish territories, 1915 (National Digital Archives, Warsaw)
Rebels in Exile: Austrian Resistance against the Nazi Occupation in Belgium, 1938–1945
© Wikimedia Commons
Rebels in Exile: Austrian Resistance against the Nazi Occupation in Belgium, 1938–1945
Lead: Mag. Philipp Strobl, MA Ph.D.
Project staff member: Mona Müller
Project partner: Prof. Dr. Nel de Mûelenaere (Freie Universität Brüssel)
Funding: Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich
Duration: 1.9.2025 – 31.12.2026
A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa
Lead: Dr. Goran Musić
Funding: FWF (P34980)
Duration: 2022-2025
WILA19-91, WOMEN’S INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC LABOR 1919-1991
WILA19-91, WOMEN’S INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC LABOR 1919-1991
Projektleitung: Dr.in Manca G. Renko
Förderung: Horizon Europe: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Dauer: September 2025-August 2028
Tackling Empire
Mihály Bíró - Poster Meinl Kaffee-Import, 1922, Wikimedia Commons
Tackling Empire
Lead: Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Lucile Dreidemy, MA
Team: Sára Bagdi, MA MA, Mag. Dr. David Mayer, Dr. Clemens Pfeffer
Funding: FWF
Running time: 1. April 2025 - 31. März 2028
Intercolonial Public: Protest and Print across India and Korea, c. 1910-1947
Intercolonial Public: Protest and Print across India and Korea, c. 1910-1947
Lead: Dr.in Sophie-Jung Kim
Funding: Horizon Europe: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Duration: October 2024- September 2026
Bonds of intimacy and Dependency. Survival Strategies of Intermarried Families in Nazi-Dominated Europe
Bonds of intimacy and Dependency. Survival Strategies of Intermarried Families in Nazi-Dominated Europe
Project leader: Michaela Raggam-Blesch
Associated research partner: Kerstin von Lingen
Project staff: Natalia Aleksiun, László Csősz, Benjamin Frommer, Tatjana Lichtenstein, Nina Valbousquet, Laurien Vastenhout
Funding: FWF
Duration: September 2024 - December 2027
Until 2025 at the University of Vienna; Since autumn 2025, the project has been based at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.
Shaping the Visual under National Socialism
Project leaders: Dr.in Margarethe Szeless and Dr.in Marion Krammer
Funding: FWF (Projektnummer: P 35766)
Duration: March 2023 to February 2027
GLORE – Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)
UNRRA photo by Rothstein, Neg no 125.
GLORE – Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951)
Project leader: Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Kerstin von Lingen
Project staff: Pauli Aro, BA MA Mres, Raphaela Monika Bollwein, BEd MA; Lena Clara Christoph, BA MA; Elisabeth Czerniak, BA MA; Johannes Glack, BA MA; Natalie Kemper; Konstantin Schischka, B.Ed. B.A. MEd MA; Jiayi Tao, BA MA PhD;
Funding: ERC (ERC Advanced Grant)
Duration: 2023-2028
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Norms, Regulation and Refugee Agency: Negotiating the Migration Regimes
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, Prof. Dr. Christoph A. Rass, PD Dr. habil. Frank Wolff
Project researchers: Franziska Lamp, BA BA MA, Jessica Wehner, M Ed
Associated researchers: Dr. in Linda Erker, Mag. Philipp Luis Strobl, PhD, MA,
Funding: D-A-CH-Projekt, FWF (Lead Agency) und DFG
Project number: I 5444 International Projects
Duration: 2022/02/01 – 2026/01/31
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Die Geschichte des KZ Mauthausen
Die Geschichte des KZ Mauthausen
Project staff: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bertrand Perz / Dr. Andreas Kranebitter (Wissenschaftlicher Leiter des Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes, DÖW)
Funding: Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich, Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich, Land Niederösterreich, Land Oberösterreich
Duration: 2022-2025
Stories of/in Transformation. Literary Narratives of Transformation and Inequality in Post-Socialist Poland
Project leader: Mag.a Mag.a Dr.in Magdalena Baran-Szołtys
Co-applicant: Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Claudia Kraft
Funding: FWF – Hertha Firnberg-Programm (Projektnummer T-1139)
Duration: 01.03.2021 to 28.08.2027
Geschichte der österreichischen Autobahnen zwischen 1935 und 1950 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der NS-Zeit
Project leader: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bertrand Perz
Project staff: Gabriele Hackl-Schwind MA, Dr.in Alexandra Wachter
Funding: ASFINAG
Duration: 2023-2025
Women’s Letters to Women’s Movement Activists, c. 1870-1930
Project leader: Dr.in Corinna Oesch
Project staff: Dr.in Dóra Czeferner
Funding: FWF - Elise Richter-Programm
Duration: 1.2.2021-31.7.2027
Die PORR AG und ihre Tochterunternehmen zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Project leader: Univ.-Prof DDr. Oliver Rathkolb, Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Sybille Steinbacher, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bertrand Perz
Project staff: Dr. Christian Rabl, Dr.in Maria Czaputowicz-Głowacka
Funding: PORR AG
Duration: 2022-2024
Video as Technology of the Self: Self-confrontation, Self-empowerment and Auto/biographical Practices
Project leader: Mag.* Dr.* Renée Winter
Funding: FWF – Elise Richter-Programm (Projektnummer V-633)
Duration: 2018-2025