Ursula Prutsch

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Ursula Prutsch (born May 3, 1965 in Graz ) is an Austrian historian . She is professor for the history of the USA and Latin America at the America Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Prutsch's research interests are the history of the United States and Latin America from the 19th to the 21st century , in particular inter-American relations, the history of Brazil and Argentina , the emigration from Austria-Hungary to Latin America, the German-speaking exile in Latin America and the history of Spain and Portugal in the 20th century. From 2009 to 2017 she was a board member of the Austrian Institute for Latin America .

Prutsch studied history and Spanish at the University of Graz . Her dissertation The Emigration of Austrians to Brazil in the Interwar Period was approved in 1993 and printed in 1996 under the title Business with Hope . She completed her habilitation in 2006 at the University of Vienna on Creating Good Neighbors? The United States and Latin America in World War II. Nelson A. Rockefellers Office of Inter-American Affairs (1940-1946) . For her habilitation thesis, she received a Hertha Firnberg position from the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research at the University of Vienna from 2001 to 2004 and the Maria Schaumayer Foundation Prize in 2006 .

In 2014 she was involved as a co-author on the ZDF documentary Fordlandia - on the way where from Peter Stamm .

Prutsch lives in Munich and Pöllau (Styria) .

Publications

Monographs

  • Populism in the US and Latin America. VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96488-001-7 .
  • Eva Perón. The life and death of a legend. A biography. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68276-6 .
  • Brazil: a cultural history. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013 (with E. Rodrigues-Moura) (2nd edition 2014; was also taken over as a book by the German Federal Agency for Political Education). ISBN 978-3-8376-2391-8 .
  • Iberian dictatorships. Portugal under Salazar, Spain under Franco. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7065-5112-0 .
  • Creating Good Neighbors? The cultural and economic policy of the USA in Latin America during World War II. Franz Steiner Publishing House. Stuttgart 2008,
  • The worlds of Paul Frischauer. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1997 (with K. Zeyringer)
  • The business of hope. Austrian emigration to Brazil 1918-1938. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1996

Editing

  • The Comeback of Populism. Transatlantic Perspectives (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Vol. 21). University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2019 (with H. Paul and J. Gebhardt)
  • Del Imperio Habsburgo a las Americas. (Estudios AHILA de Historia Latinoamericana 14.) Iberoamericana Vervuert, Madrid 2017 (with Mónika Szente-Varga and Fábio Bertonha)
  • Brazil 2014. New beginnings and turmoil. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2014 (with G. Drekonja)
  • Images / Imagenes. Film and pictures from Latin America. LIT Verlag, Vienna, 2007 (with D. Ingruber)
  • Imaging Vienna. Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2006 (with M. Sommer and M. Gräser)
  • Leopold von Andrian. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, 2003 (with K. Zeyringer)
  • Habsburg postcolonial. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck, 2003 (with J. Feichtinger, M. Csáky)

Scientific articles (selection)

  • Populism in Brazil: Getúlio Vargas and Jair Bolsonaro. In: The Comeback of Populism. Transatlantic Perspectives, ed. By H. Paul, U. Prutsch, and J. Gebhardt. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2019, 275–291.
  • Slave Emancipation in Brazil and Cuba and Its Inter-American Dimension. In: Cultural Mobility and Knowledge Formation in the Americas, ed. By V. Depkat and B. Waldschmidt-Nelson. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2019, 73–94.
  • A new right-wing populism in the USA. The Tea Party Movement and Donald Trump. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 67th Jg./Heft3/Juli 2019, 454–463.
  • Labor Policy, Germanness, and Nazi Influence in Brazil. In: Nazism Across Borders. The Social Policies of the Third Reich and their Global Appeal, ed. By S. Kott and KK Patel. Oxford University Press, Oxford, London 2018 (The German Historical Institute London), 309–334.
  • (with Mónika Szente-Varga): Latin American Studies in Austria and in Hungary, 1790s-1945. In: In Search of Other Worlds. Essays towards a Cross-Regional History of Area Studies, ed. By K. Naumann, T. Loschke, St. Marung, and M. Middell. Leipzig University Press: Leipzig 2018, 215–251.
  • Mother of the poor, missionary, martyr, saint. The diverse roles of Evita Perón. In: Holy. Transcultural cults of worship from the Middle Ages to the present, ed. by K. Jobst and D. Hüchtker. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, 161–187.
  • Labor policy in Brazil under Getúlio Vargas (1930–1945). In: 100 years of labor market administration. Austria in international comparison, ed. by M. Krempl and J. Thaler. Vienna University Press, Vienna 2017, 237–261.
  • Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures: A Double Escape from a Global Conflict. In: Migration in Lusophone Cinema, ed. By C. Rêgo and M. Brasileiro. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2014, 167-185.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7840/2786312
  2. ↑ The Sperling, the Condor and the People in Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ cannibals? Of course! in Die Welt on September 28, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Prutsch, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz