Johanna Gehmacher has been teaching at the Institute of Contemporary History since 1998. Since 2001 she is extraordinary university professor at the University of Vienna. She has held a number of university functions (including head of department (2012-2014)) and is currently speaker of the key research area women’s and gender history at the Faculty for Historical and Cultural Studies. In the academic year 2018/19, she was the Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor at the German Historical Institute London and at the London School of Economics. She is a member of the interdisciplinary network ‘Biographieforschung’ co-editor of the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies (OeZG).

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

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Research topics

• Contemporary history as women's and gender history
• Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the concept of nation
• theory of biography, biography research
• Social movements: Women's movements, youth movements
• National Socialism: history of National Socialism as an oppositional movement, women's and gender history of National Socialism, history of memory

Selected publications

• In/Visible Transfers: Translation as a Crucial Practice in Transnational Women's Movements around 1900, in: German Historical Institute London Bulletin XLI (2019), 2
• Macht/Lust – Übersetzung und fragmentierte Traditionsbildung als Strategien zur Mobilisierung eines radikalen Feminismus, in: Erinnern, vergessen, umdeuten? Europäische Frauenbewegungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, hg. von Angelika Schaser u.a. Frankfurt/New York 2019
• Käthe Schirmacher: Agitation und autobiografische Praxis zwischen radikaler Frauenbewegung und völkischer Politik. Wien, Köln, Weimar 2018 (gemeinsam mit Elisa Heinrich und Corinna Oesch) www.boehlau-verlag.com/download/164990/978-3-205-20721-4_OpenAccess.pdf
• „Völkische Frauenbewegung“. Deutschnationale und nationalsozialistische Geschlechterpolitik in Österreich. Wien 1998
• Jugend ohne Zukunft. Hitler-Jugend und Bund Deutscher Mädel in Österreich vor 1938. Wien 1994