Histcult:doc Fellows 2020

Clara-Anna Egger

Clara-Anna Egger

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Clara-Anna Egger studied History and English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. She graduated with a diploma thesis (Mag.^a phil.) on Austrian post-war women in the culture of remembrance and the homogenization of the living realities of these women. In October 2020 she was awarded the Histcult:doc Fellowship of the Vienna Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies. Her current research project, supervised by Johanna Gehmacher and Nadja Gernalzick,  “Practicing Feminist Internationalism” deals with the internationalization of the women’s peace movement 1918 – 1939.

Research Interests: Women’s and Gender History, 20^th Century Women’s Rights Activism, Pacifism and Pacifist Movements, Travel History, Auto-/Biography Studies.

Current Research Project: After the Great War, the women’s rights movement successfully reconstituted and came to fore with the aim to further facilitate cross-border connections and expand the international feminist network born out of the suffrage movement. The three major international women’s movement organizations (ICW, IAW and WILPF) sought to adapt to a new prevalent sense of internationalism after World War I. In my thesis, I will focus on the lesser-researched Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; the oldest, still existing women’s peace organization in the world. For the members of WILPF feminism and pacifism were closely intertwined, and with the deeply rooted conviction that without permanent peace, women will not obtain equality to men, WILPF tried to advance their cause by using various methods. One of such were the travels of the members who could afford to voyage extensively. In my project, I will follow the tracks of some members of the British and US-American WILPF sections on their journeys through Continental Europe from 1919 to 1939. In analyzing autobiographical writings (e.g., letters, diaries) and the official WILPF documents, I seek to demonstrate how the activists used traveling to advocate for peace and women’s rights. Furthermore, I will investigate how the feminist pacifists evaluated the instable situation in Continental Europe after the Great War and the years preceding WWII.

Peter Hinterndorfer

Peter Hinterndorfer

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Studied History (BA 2014, MA 2021) as well as Prehistory and Historical Archaeology (BA 2014, MA 2019) at the University of Vienna; Since 2014 research associate in several projects on Contemporary History and Historical Archaeology; Since 2020 University Assistant (prae doc) at the University of Vienna. 

Research Interests: Archaeologies of Internment, 20th Century Material Culture, Methods and Theories in Historical Archaeology.

Current Research Project: Spaces, borders and accessibility in National Socialist forced camps in the context of historical-archaeological sources
The project will examine spatial differentiations and boundaries in Nazi forced camps. By means of a transdisciplinary approach involving a broad base of different source categories, the internal structure of concentration camps and forced labour camps as well as their embedding in the environment will be analysed with regard to accessibility and prohibited areas. The focus will be on the spatial perspectives and perceptions of the prisoners, the guards and the regional civilian population.

Publications:

• Wohltätigkeit, Selbsthilfe und organisierte Geselligkeit. Entwicklung, Funktion und Differenzierung des Vereinswesens. In: Oliver Kühschelm, Elisabeth Loinig, Stefan Eminger u. Willibald Rosner (Hrsg.), Niederösterreich im 19. Jahrhundert, Band 2: Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft. Eine Regionalgeschichte der Moderne, St. Pölten 2021, 349–379. (peer reviewed)

• gemeinsam mit Claudia Theune, Thomas Atzmüller, KG Oberpetersdorf, FÖ 58/2019 (Wien 2021), 79-80 und D772-D782.
• Städtische Repräsentation und bürgerliche Kultur. In: Oliver Kühschelm (Hrsg.), Zwettl im 19. Jahrhundert = Geschichte der Stadt Zwettl, Teil 3, hrsg. von Stefan Eminger, Oliver Kühschelm, Friedel Moll, Josef Prinz, Martin Scheutz u. Roman Zehetmayer im Auftrag der Stadtgemeinde Zwettl (Manuskript, Zwettl 2020), www.zwettl.gv.at/Kultur_in_Zwettl.
• gemeinsam mit Claudia Theune u. Thomas Atzmüller, KG Hintstein, FÖ 57/2018 (Wien 2020), D4481-D4489
• gemeinsam mit Claudia Theune u. Thomas Atzmüller, KG Hintstein, FÖ 56/2017 (Wien 2019), 338-339 und D4208-D4215
• Material remains of telecommunication at the forced labour camp in Kirchbichl (Tyrol, Austria). Historische Archäologie 4/2017. (peer reviewed)

Herbert Krammer

Herbert Krammer

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Study of history (BA, 2011–2014) and historical research, historical auxiliary sciences and archival science at the University of Vienna (MA, 2014–2018) and Basel (spring-term 2015); employment at the library and since January 2020 part-time employment in the archive of Klosterneuburg Abbey; since October 2020 praedoc (affiliated to the Institute of Austrian Historical Research) and doctoral fellow of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies; participation in several projects, including the FWF projects Visions of Community (2016–2019), Illuminated Charters (2016, 2019) and Soziale Netzwerke im spätmittelalterlichen Wien. Geschlecht, Verwandtschaft und Objektkultur (2018–2020). 

Research Interests: Comparative Urban History in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, Digital Prosopography, Historical Network Analysis, Austrian Regional History

Current Research Project: Großes Kloster, kleine Stadt. Verflechtungen städtischer Gruppen und geistlicher Institutionen am Beispiel von Klosterneuburg im späten Mittelalter (working title). 
Taking the Late Medieval town of Klosterneuburg in the Austrian Danube region (situated north of Vienna) as an example, my PhD-thesis is conceived as a case-study on practices of social cohesion and various entanglements of urban elites. It aims at focusing on social and horizontal mobility of various groups of Klosterneuburg as well as on their property management, administrative functions, marital alliances and strategies of religious endowments from the late 14^th until the early 16^th century.

Publications:  

• 1) Mit Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy und Daniel Frey: Kinship, Gender and Spiritual Economy in Medieval Central European Towns, in: History and Anthropology 32 (2021) 249-270, online: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1905246; 
• 2) Grundbesitz und Klosterwirtschaft der Wiener Zisterzienserinnen von St. Niklas im späten Mittelalter, in: NÖLA. Mitteilungen des Niederösterreichischen Landesarchivs 19 (2020), 261–306;
• 3) Zwettler Ratsprotokolle 1588-1589 und 1590-1591/92. Eine landesfürstliche Stadt im Zeichen der einsetzenden Gegenreformation (Forschungen zur Landeskunde von Niederösterreich 41, St. Pölten 2019).