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• Curriculum Vitae

  Professional Experience

  • since 05/2015 University Assistant (Postdoc), Institute for History, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 09/2012-05/2015 University Assistant (Predoc), Centre for the History of Science, University of Graz (Austria)
  • 04-09/2012 Part-time Lecturer, Institute for History, University of Bremen (Germany)
  • 10/2008-03/2012 Teaching and Research Assistant, Institute for History, University of Bremen (Germany)
  • 01/2005-09/2008 Student Assistant, Institute for History, University of Bochum (Germany)

   

  Education

  • 03/2015 PhD in History at the University of Graz (Austria): “(Foreign) Bodies. Stigmatizing New Christians in Early Modern Spain“, supervisors: Dorothea Nolde and Simone De Angelis
  • 09/2009 and 02-03/2010 Research Stays in Madrid (Spain)
  • 06/2008 M.A. at the University of Bochum (Germany): “The Debate about Purity of Blood in the 16th and 17th Centuries”
  • 02/2006 B.A. at the University of Bochum (Germany): “Voltaire’s Impact on the Development of Tolerance in the 18th Century”
  • 10/2000-06/2008 History, French Literary Studies and Spanish Literary Studies at the University of Bochum (Germany) and Seville (Spain)
• Awards

  • 2018 UNIVIE Teaching Award in the category “Learning to solve problems” from the University of Vienna for the Guided Reading: “Pious Princesses and Mighty Confessors? Religion – Power – Gender in Early Modern Times“
  • 2017 grant for a stand-alone publication from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • 2016 Award Michael Mitterauer Preis for the PhD-thesis from the Department of Economic and Social History of the University of Vienna
  • 2015 Award of Excellence for the PhD-thesis from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
• Social Media

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• Research interests

  • Cultural History of Early Modern Diplomacy
  • History of Science, especially History of the Body and History of Medicine
  • Gender History
  • History of the Sephardic Jewry in Early Modern Times
• Projects

  Current projects:

  • Chess(wo)men's Agency? Habsburg Princesses and Dynastic Diplomacy
    for detailed information see: Diplomacy in Conflict

  • NonSense. Sense Making in Premodern Times
    for detailed information see: Research Group Disability Studies
• Conference organisation

  • Organisation of the international conference "Conflict Management in Modern Diplomacy (1500-1914)" (University of Vienna, 8-10 February 2018) with Dorothea Nolde
  • Organisation of the symposium "Observing – Depicting – Disseminating. The Scientific Perspective in the Modern Period" (Centre for History of Science, Graz, 7-9 May 2015) with Clemens Janisch, Florian Meixner and Thomas Durlacher ­­