Concluded Research Projects

"Race science: Undiscovered Power of Building the Nations"
(2019-2021), financed by FWF, M 2674 Meitner-Programm

"The demographic situation in Albania approx 1900"
(01.02.2017-31.08.2019), financed by the "Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank", 17494

"Alternative Media and Visual Counter-Narratives: Political Posters as visual symbols of protest"
(01.06.2015-31.05.2018), financed by Austrian Academy of Sciences

"Personal Management in a new Province: the Austrian Banat (1716 - 1751/53)"
(12.01.2015 - 11.01.2018), financed by FWF, P27488-G18

"Austrian-Hungarian Albanology 1867-1918 – a case of cultural imperialsim?"
(01.04.2014 – 31.03.2017), financed by FWF, P26437-G15

"Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body: The Balkans, approx. 1860-1950"
(01.08.2010 - 01.08.2014), financed by FWF, P 22104-G18

Transcultural Communication and Exchange: "The Habsburg and the Ottoman Empires in the Early Modern Age"
(01.01.2011 - 02.07.2014), financed by the Hertha-Firnberg-Programm of the FWF, T 476-G18

"The Relationship with the Forest and the Habsburg Resource Policy in Eighteenth-century Transylvania"
(01.12.2011 - 30.11.2014), financed by FWF, P 24084-G18

"The Kosovar Family Revisited"
(01.09.2010 - 31.03.2014), financed by FWF, P 22659-G18

"Suppressing Heritage : The historical power of in-between spaces. The example of Thrace"
(01.05.2009 - 30.04.2013), financed by FWF, V119-G18

Creating Contemporary Art Museums in the Post-Soviet Space (CCAM)
(01.11.2012 - 31.10.2012), financed by FWF, P25079-G21

"Identitymanagement of the Germans und Hungarians in Southeastern-Central-Europe."
(16.08.2007 - 15.08.2010), financed by FWF.

"Transcultural Communication and Cultural Exchange between Islam and Christianity: On the Example of the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the First Half of the 18th Century."
(01.01.2010 - 31.12.2010), financed by Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
Hertha-Firnberg Projekt

"Post-Soviet Art Museums in the Era of Globalization"
(01.01.2008 - 31.10.2011), financed by FWF.

New and Ambiguous Nation-building Processes in South-eastern Europe"
(16.08.2007 - 15.08.2010), financed by FWF.

"Kinship and Social Security in Kosovo in European Context"
(01.06.2009 - 30.11.2009), funded by ASO.

"Labor Migration and Long-Distance Nationalism of Albanians from Macedonia"
(01.08.2006 - 01.08.2009), financed by FWF.

"Transnational Inheritage. Istanbul (Galata-Pera) and Thessalonica in Comparison"
(01.12.2005 - 30.04.2009), financed by FWF.

"Tourism and Leisure Cultures in Socialist Yugoslavia"
(2005-2008), financed by FWF.

"Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens"
(2003-2007), financed by Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture.

"Kinship and Social Security"
(2004-2007), financed by EU.

"Tirana and Shkodra: 1918-1938"
(2003-2006), financed by FWF.

"Family Structures and Ethnicity. Case Studies from Macedonia"
financed by FWF.

"Migration in Albania at the Beginning of the 20th Century"
(2002/2003), financed by Austrian National Bank.

"The Pera-Society of Istanbul 1918/23 until Now. Forgotten Island of Interculturality"
(01.12.2002 - 30.11.2005), financed by FWF.

"Family and Women in Socialist Bulgaria"
(2001-2004/05), financed by FWF.

"Hidden Minorities between Central Europe and the Balkans"
(2001-2004), financed by FWF.

"Non-offizicial Art Market in USSR 1917-1991"
(2001-2003), financed by FWF.

"Historical Sciences in Southeastern Europe"
(2001-2003), financed by Austrian Federal Government for Education, Science, and Culture.

"The 1918 Albanian Population Census: Data Entry and Basic Analyses"
(2000-2003), financed by FWF.

"Creating additional Material for the Education of Southeast European History in Southeastern Europe"
(2000-2002), financed by Stability Pact for Southeast Europe.

"Public Space in Bulgarien in Modern Times (until 1914)"
(2000-2002), financed by Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture.

"Sowjet Art Exports to the West 1917-1938"
(1999-2001), financed by Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Traffic.

"Clientelism and the Principle of Seniority in Southeastern Europe"
(1999-2000), financed by FWF.

"Southeastern Europe – Analysis of Projects for Strengthening Civil Society"
(1998-1999), financed by Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Traffic.

"Booty of the October Revolution: Sowjet Export Business with state-owned Art, 1917-38"
(1998-1999), financed by Austrian National Bank.

"Correspondence of Gustav Meyerv as Albanologist"
(1998), financed by Austrian National Bank.

"Kinship Relations in Bulgaria in historical and contemporary Perspective"
(1997-1999), financed by Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Traffic.

"Ecology, Labour Division, and Family Structures in the Balkans”
(1997-1999), financed by FWF.

"Biographies of political prisoners in Albania (1944-1991)"
(1997), financed by Austrian Federal Ministeries for Education and Science and Traffic.

"Patriarchal Social Strukturs in the Balkans"
(1995-1997), financed by FWF.

"Patronship in the Sowjet Union 1917-1985"
(1995-1997), financed by FWF.

"Balkan Family"
(1993-1994), financed by FWF.

"Styrian Slovenes"
(1993-1994), financed by FWF.

"Training of Young Albanian Scientists"
(1993/94), financed by IREX [International Research & Exchanges Board] Washington/USA.

"Tribal Societies in Northern Albania"
(1993/94), financed by Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research.

"Legendary Patronship of Moscow"
(1991-1994), financed by FWF.

"Tribal Societies in Southeastern Europe"
(1989-1991), financed by FWF.

"Eastern Styria"
(1986-1987), financed by various sides of the Austrian Federal Country of Styria.

"Military Border"
(1983-1986), financed by FWF.