Our guest researchers
Visiting researchers from previous academic years
Academic year 2022/23
- Associate Prof. Christopher Isett, PhD (University of Minnesota, USA)
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Christopher Isett is Associate Professor of Chinese History at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998. His research focuses on the global history of capitalism since 1945 and the Cold War, agrarian history, and the history of China and East Asia. He is currently working on a research project on the economic development of Taiwan from 1947 to 1977. In 2016, he published a book on the social history of agriculture together with Stephen Miller:The Social History of Agriculture. From the Origins to the Current Crisis. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2016
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- Ao.Univ.-Prof. Univ.-Doz. Dr. Martin Scheutz (University of Vienna)
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In Martin Scheutz we welcome a colleague from Vienna as a visiting professor at the Institute of History in the summer semester 2022. Martin Scheutz is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Vienna, where he works at the Institute of History and the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. His research interests include the history of hospitals and orphanages, crime research, secret Protestantism, the Viennese court and - in close cooperation with the Münster Institute for Comparative Urban History, the Commission Internationale pour l'histoire des villes, the Austrian Working Group for Urban History and the Association for the History of the City of Vienna - international urban history research in the broader context of early modern history. Recent monographs include: Die Transformation des Wiener Stadtbildes um 1700. Die Vogelschau des Bernhard Georg Andermüller von 1703 und der Stadtplan des Michel Herstal de la Tache von 1695/97 (2018) and Das Spital in der Frühen Neuzeit. A Hospital Landscape in Central Europe (2020).
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Academic year 2019/20
- Dr.Oswald Überegger (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Academic year 2017/18
- Thomas C. Wolfe, PhD (University of Minnesota, USA)