Andrea Komlosy

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Andrea Komlosy (born August 24, 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian . Her work is in research and teaching at the University of Vienna with a focus on the economic and social history of the Habsburg monarchy and its successor states in the 18th to 20th centuries, migration research, and industrial and global history (theory and history of the world economy ).

Life

Komlosy grew up in Vienna . After elementary school in Ober Sankt Veit, she graduated from the Federal High School XIII in Hietzing . Komlosy studied history at the University of Vienna from 1976 to 1984, after studying abroad in Brittany at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest in 1975/76. In 1984 she received her doctorate in economic and social history. Then she was a scholar at the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research in the Political Science Department. She then worked in museums (including the Weitra textile and industrial museum and the Vienna Technical Museum ) and taught in Vienna, Linz , Graz , Innsbruck and Honolulu . From 1993 Komlosy worked as an assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. From 1992 to 1995 she worked on research projects on industrial history for the Waldviertel Academy ( Waidhofen an der Thaya ); from 1996 to 1998 she headed this academy.

From 1995 she worked on her habilitation thesis on the topic of borders and unequal regional development. Regional disparities and labor migration in the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th and 19th centuries ; the venia docendi was awarded to her in January 2002.

In 2003, she was for a two-month research at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and 2014/15 for a year Schumpeter Fellow of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at the same Institute for International Affairs at Harvard University in the US Cambridge , Massachusetts .

Since 2002 Komlosy has worked in the global history research module at the University of Vienna.

politics

Komlosy was the top candidate of the left-wing Viennese group Die Grünalternativen - Democratic List (short name: GAL) in the National Council elections in 1986 and achieved 6,005 votes.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hannes Hofbauer : The other Austria: From the rebellion of the common people. Stories from 4 centuries. Promedia, Vienna 1987.
  • Relegated to the margins: Economic and social history of the Upper Waldviertel. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1988.
  • Waldviertel Textile Road: travel guide through the past and present of a region. Waldviertel Textile Museums, Groß-Siegharts 1990; 2nd, revised edition 1994.
  • Boundaries and Unequal Regional Development: Internal Market and Migration in the Habsburg Monarchy. Promedia, Vienna 2003 (habilitation thesis, University of Vienna, 2002).
  • Global history: methods and theories. Böhlau, Vienna 2011.
  • Work: A Global Historical Perspective. 13th to 21st century. Promedia, Vienna 2014.
  • Borders - Spatial and social dividing lines in the course of time , Promedia, Vienna 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gerhard Jordan: Chronicle of the Green Alternative , Green Club in the City Hall, A-1082 Vienna, as of: Summer 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 279 kB); Retrieved December 30, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gbw.users.aboliton.at  
  2. ^ Federal Ministry of the Interior: National Council election of November 23, 1986 ; Retrieved December 30, 2012.