History and Culture

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Europäisierung Amerikas: Genuesen, Florentiner, Sephardische Juden und die Europäisierung Amerikas, 1492 bis 1530 (Christian Cwik, Verena Muth)
• Wie das System wieder hochfahren? Beispiele von Maßnahmenbündel sowie pandemischer Krisenlösungsstrategien in europäischen und amerikanischen Städten (Graz - Sevilla - Bridgetown - Boston im 17. und 18. Jh.) (Christian Cwik, Stefan Rabitsch, Mark Stieger)

• Transatlantische Migration und interamerikanische Weiterwanderung: Österreichische Flüchtlinge und das Exil Karibik, 1933-1955 (Roberta Maierhofer, Christian Cwik, Verena Muth)

CURRENT POSTDOC PROJECTS

• Neuchristen und Juden im karibischen Raum der Frühen Neuzeit Menschen, Waren, Handelsströme (Christian Cwik)
   

CURRENT PROMOTIONAL PROJECTS

• Das österreichische Exil in Bolivien während des 2. Weltkriegs (Roberto Kalmar)

COMPLETED PROMOTIONS

• Witnesses to Balkan killing fields: Identity, trauma, and remembrance in anglophone testimonies of Bosnian Americans (Laura Kromják, 2017)

COMPLETED DIPLOMA AND MASTER THESES

• Feeding Different Needs. American Wet Nurses in the 18th and 19th Century (Marion Spanring, 2019)
• Then and now: American captivity narratives revisited (Nina Reibenschuh, 2018)
• Assimilation and self-Identification of second-generation immigrants in Miami: A critical survey of the theory of assimilation and its validity in Miami (Julia Waldhuber, 2018)
• The power of the female voice: US-American women protesting in the 1960s and 1970s (Nicole Haring, 2017)
• Reservation life as depicted in contemporary native American literature (Katharina Haslinger, 2017)
• Trauma and Healing: autobiographical voices on Indian residential school abuse in Canada (Bianca Wrenko-Ulm, 2017)
• Echoes of truth: The representation of the Juárez feminicides as an act of cultural resistance (Alexander Lins, 2017)
• "Ah! After all this is America!": Jewish women's autobiographies and the experience of becoming American (Cornelia Eicher, 2017)