Researcher
HiND is a research group whose nucleus initially consisted of the research team of the ERC project “Non-Territorial Autonomy – History of a Traveling Idea” and is continually expanding. It brings together historical research on diversity at the University of Vienna and serves as a relay station for researchers from all around the world working on the topic of national diversity in Europe.
Core group
Börries Kuzmany
University of Vienna, Institute for East European History
Research focus
- Time period: Mid-18th to mid-20th century
- Regional focus: Habsburg Monarchy, Eastern Europe, especially Poland, Ukraine, Soviet Union
- Topics: Studies of nationalism, minorities, history of ideas, urban history, border spaces, Jewish history, research on migrations, cultural history, transfer and comparison
Timo Aava
Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research focus:
- Time period: late 19th and 20th century
- Regional focus: Eastern Europe, Baltic states, Russian Empire
- Topics: political history, history of ideas, Jewish history, nationalism, minorities, migration
Oskar Mulej
University of Vienna, Institute for East European History
Research focus:
- Time period: Mid-19th to mid.-20th century
- Regional focus: Habsburg Monarchy, Central and Southeastern Europe, especially Yugoslavia, Austria and Czechoslovakia
- Topics: political history, history of ideas, political ideologies and movements, liberalism, nationalism, minorities, transfer and comparison, local history
Yuki Murata
University of Vienna, Institute for East European History
Research focus:
- Time period: End of 19th to mid.-20th Century
- Regional focus: Ukraine, Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Topics: Nationalism, research on empires, political ideas and ideologies, minorities, autonomy and federalism, war and violence, identity
Stephanie Ziehaus
University of Vienna, Department of History
Research focus:
- Time period: late 18th to early 20th centuries
- Regional focus: Eastern Siberia, the Russian Far East, China’s Northeast
- Topics: ethnicity and ethnic identity, ethnic minorities, empire building, colonialism, borderlands, Russian Empire, Qing Empire, indigenous self-governance
Wider group
Anna Adorjáni
University of Vienna
Research focus:
- Time period: 19th and early 20th centuries
- Regional focus: East-Central Europe, Habsburg Monarchy, especially Hungary and Transylvania
- Topics: nationalism and minority studies, Marxist thought, Jewish history, intellectual history, social history, microhistory, cultural translation
Ágoston Berecz
Central European University
Research focus:
- Time period: 19th and early 20th centuries
- Regional focus: Transylvania and Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, East-Central Europe
- Topics: nationalism, social history, language policies, multilingualism, peasantry
Emmanuel Dalle Mulle
Complutense University of Madrid
Research focus:
- Time period: 20th century
- Regional focus: Europe
- Topics: nationalism studies, minorities, history of the welfare state, history of human rights.
Marina Germane
University of Vienna
Research focus:
- Time period: 19th and 20th centuries
- Regional focus: Europe
- Topics: ethnic relations; nationalism and identity; diversity accommodation; history of political thought
Tomasz Hen-Konarski
Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Research focus:
- Period: 18th and 19th century
- Regional focus: Central and Eastern Europe, Polish Lithuanian-Commonwealth, Austrian Monarchy, Galicia, Poland, Ukraine
- Topics: Polish and Ukrainian nation building, Catholic Enlightenment, Romanticism, Greek Catholic Church as a political institution of the Austrian Monarchy
Dietlind Hüchtker
University of Vienna
Research focus:
- Time period: 19th and 20th centuries
- Regional focus: Poland, Habsburg Monarchy, East-Central-Europe
- Topics: gender history, political and social movements, rural spaces, history of knowledge and history of sciences
Tatsuya Nakazawa
Waseda University, Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences/ Waseda Institute for the Study of Nationalism and Ethnicity
Research focus:
- Time period: 18th and 19th centuries
- Regional focus: Central and Eastern Europe, Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Hungary, Upper Hungary, Slovakia
- Topics: composite monarchy or state, conglomerate state, republicanism, republic with king, nationalism studies, constitutional history, history of ideas, intellectual history
Olena Palko
University of Basel
Research focus:
- Time period: 19th and 20th century
- Regional focus: Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Topics: nationalism studies, minorities, minorites protection, Ukrainian nation-building, sovitization
Kriszta Eszter Szendrői
University of Vienna, Department of Linguistics
Research focus:
- Focus: Yiddish language and Ashkenazi Jewish culture
- Topics: Standard Yiddish grammar, Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish grammar, cultural history of Ashkenazi Jews in Europe, Contemporary Hasidic communities
Alexander Teutsch
University of Vienna
Research focus:
- Time period: End of the 19th Century until 1945
- Regional focus: Habsburg Monarchy with a particular focus on Tyrol, after 1918 South Tyrol
- Topics: Multilingualism, Nationalism studies, language and identity, legal transfers and legal knowledge, ethnicity and career paths in the judiciary
Till van Rahden
Université de Montréal
Research focus:
- Time period: 18.–20. Jahrhundert
- Regional Focus: Europe and North America
- Research Areas: Jewish History, Cultural Pluralism, Multiculturalism, Antisemitism, Democracy, Liberalism und Civil Society, Conceptual History.
Roni Gechtman
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Department of History
Research focus:
- Time period: 1880-1950
- Regional focus: East Central Europe
- Topics: history of the labour movement, The 'national question' in Marxist thought, accommodation in multinational states, Jews in Russia and Poland
Gennadii Korolov
Mieroszewski Centre for Dialogue, Warsaw, Poland
Research focus:
- Time period: 19th and early 20th centuries
- Regional focus: East-Central Europe, the Russian Empire, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine
- Topics: federalism studies, revolution studies, nationalism and minority studies, intellectual history, conceptual history
Matthias Battis
Nizami Ganjavi Centre, University of Oxford
Research focus:
- Time period: late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Regional focus: Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Persianate Central Asia
- Topics: nationalism, orientalism, identity, empire, knowledge production, minorities
Johana Wyss
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology
Research focus:
- Time period: 20th and 21st Century
- Regional focus: Czech Silesia, Central and Eastern Europe
- Topics: collective memory and identity, borders and borderlands, populism, social anthropology and ethnography
Robert Devetak
Institute for Ethnic Studies, School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Research focus:
- Time period: Late 19th and early 20th Century
- Regional focus: Habsburg Monarchy, Slovenia, Italian-Slovenian national border area
- Topics: Women’s history, history of social welfare and charity, nationalism studies, First World War (civilian population, refugees)