Claudia Kraft is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna since 2018. Before coming to Vienna she had worked at the University of Siegen as a Professor of Contemporary European History (2011-2018) and at the University of Erfurt as a Professor of Central and Eastern European History (2005-2011). She specializes in 20th century comparative European and particularly Central and Eastern European History. She is the speaker of the Research Platform "Transformations and Eastern Europe", Co-Director of the "Research Center for the History of Transformations" (RECET), member of the Research Platform "Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities" (GAIN) and of the Research Group "History of Human Rights and Democracy". She is Co-Editor of the following journals: "L'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft", "Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften" (OeZG) and the Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. Since 2020, she has represented the historical sciences on the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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Curriculum Vitae

Publications

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Research Topics

• European Contemporary History in Comparative Perspective
• History of Central and Eastern Europe since the 18th Century
• Gender History
• History of State Socialist Societies After World War II
• Transnational 20th Century Legal History
• Theory of History and Concepts of Area Studies

Selected Publications

• Claudia Kraft: East Central Europe as Historical and Conceptual Space. On the production of knowledge from an (historical) area studies perspective, in: Huigen, Siegfried/Kołodziejczyk, Dorota (eds.), Central Europe between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 35-55.
• Dietlind Hüchtker, Claudia Kraft, Katrin Steffen (Hrsg.): Begehren macht Akteur*innen. Praktiken der Subjektivierung im 20. Jahrhundert / Desire Creates Involvement. Practices of Subjectification during the 20th Century, Nordost-Archiv 29/2020 (Lüneburg 2023).
• Claudia Kraft: Deutsch-polnische Historiker:innenbeziehungen und die Erforschung der Geschichte (des östlichen) Europas: in memoriam Włodzimierz Borodziej (1956-2021). In: H-Soz-Kult, 13.08.2021.
• Claudia Kraft/Jerzy Kochanowski (Hrsg.): Rooms for Manoeuvre: another look at negotiating processes in the Socialist Bloc. Göttingen 2021.
• Claudia Kraft, Béatrice von Hirschhausen, Hannes Grandits, Dietmar Müller und Thomas Serrier]: Phantom Borders in Eastern Europe: a new concept for regional research, in: Slavic Review 78/2 (summer 2019), S. 368-389.
• Claudia Kraft, Alf Lüdtke, Jürgen Martschukat] (Hrsg.): Kolonialgeschichten. Regionale Perspektiven auf ein globales Phänomen, Frankfurt/M., New York 2010.
• Claudia Kraft (Hrsg.): Geschlechterverhältnisse in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Soziale Praxis und Konstruktion von Geschlechterbildern, München 2008.
• Claudia Kraft: Europa im Blick der polnischen Juristen. Rechtsordnung und juristische Profession im Spannungsfeld zwischen Nation und Europa 1918-1939 (= Studien zu Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 156 des Max-Planck-Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte), Frankfurt am Main 2002.