Dirk Rupnow

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Dirk Rupnow (born September 30, 1972 in Berlin ) is a German historian . He is a university professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck . From 2010 to 2018 he was director of the institute, and since March 2018 he has been dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History.

Life

Rupnow studied history, German, philosophy and art history at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna . He completed his studies at the University of Vienna in 1999, followed by his doctorate at the University of Klagenfurt in 2002, and his habilitation again in Vienna in 2009.

In 1999/2000 he worked as a research assistant for the Historians' Commission of the Republic of Austria . In 2000/01 he was a Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies , from 2004 to 2007 a postdoctoral fellow in the Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and from 2007 to 2009 a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences . In 2007 he became a lecturer and in 2009 a private lecturer at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Between 2008 and 2016 he was a member of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2009 he has been researching and teaching at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck, of which he was director from 2010 to 2018. From 2016 to 2019 he was also a member of the Senate of the University of Innsbruck. Since March 2019 he has been the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History. Rupnow completed a number of other guest stays at various research institutions: at the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College , at the History Department at Duke University , as well as several times at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig and at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. In 2016/17 he was the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at the Europe Center and Department of History at Stanford University . In 2015 he was the (founding) head of the Migration and Globalization Research Center, and in 2016 (founding) spokesman for the doctoral program Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalization . He has been a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies since 2017 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Rupnow has presented numerous publications on contemporary history, Holocaust and Jewish studies, cultures of remembrance and history politics, the history of migration and science.

Monographs
  • Research on Jews in the Third Reich. Science between politics, propaganda and ideology (= historical foundations of modernity, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. Vol. 4). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6421-4 (habilitation thesis, University of Vienna, 2009).
  • Aporias of Remembrance. Reflections on the “Holocaust” and memory (= Edition Parabasen. Vol. 5). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau / Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7930-9466-1 .
  • Destroying and remembering. Traces of National Socialist memory politics. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-871-X (dissertation, University of Klagenfurt, 2002). ( Review on H-Soz-Kult )
  • Perpetrator, memory, victim. The “Central Jewish Museum” in Prague 1942–1945 . Picus, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-85452-444-1 .
  • with Gabriele Anderl: The “Central Office for Jewish Emigration” as an institution of robbery. Publications of the Austrian Commission of Historians. Deprivation of assets during the Nazi era as well as provisions and compensation since 1945 in Austria (= deprivation of assets during the Nazi period as well as provisions and compensation since 1945 in Austria. Vol. 20: National Socialist Institutions of Asset Deprivation. T. 1). Oldenbourg, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-486-56784-5 .
Editing
  • Edited with Wilfried Beimrohr, Karl Berger a. a. (Advisory board of the funding focus culture of remembrance): On the value of remembering. Scientific projects of the funding period 2014 to 2018, self-published by the Tiroler Landesarchiv, Innsbruck 2020.
  • Edited with Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Michaela Ralser: Psychiatric Childhoods. The Innsbruck child observation station by Maria Nowak-Vogl, StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-3-7065-5914-0 .
  • Edited with Margret Friedrich: History of the University of Innsbruck 1669–2019. Vol. I: Phases of University History, Part. 1: From the foundation to the end of the First World War (615 pages) / Teilbd. 2: The University in the 20th Century (567 pages) // Vol. II: Aspects of University History (878 pages) (350 years University of Innsbruck), innsbruck university press, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-903187-69-6 .
  • Edited with Günter Bischof: Migration in Austria (= Contemporary Austrian Studies 26), University of New Orleans Press / Innsbruck university press, New Orleans-Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 9783903122802 .
  • Edited with Amos Morris-Reich: Ideas of 'Race' in the History of the Humanities (= Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism 2). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2017, ISBN 978-3319499529 .
  • Edited with Eva Pflanzelter : indigenous - two-indigenous - multi-indigenous. History (s) of the new migration in South Tyrol. Raetia, Bozen 2017, ISBN 978-88-7283-595-1 .
  • Edited with Iris Roebling-Grau: "Holocaust" -Fiction. Art beyond authenticity. Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5505-5 .
  • Edited with Heidemarie Uhl : Exhibiting contemporary history in Austria. Museums - memorials - exhibitions. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78531-6 .
  • Edited with Veronika Lipphardt, Jens Thiel, Christina Wessely: Pseudoscience. Concepts of non-scientific nature in the history of science (= Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. Vol. 1897). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29497-0 .

Web links

Commons : Dirk Rupnow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences : Almanach. Vol. 159 (2009), p. 136.
  2. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Dirk Rupnow. In: Institute for Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ International Scientific Advisory Board , Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rupnow, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin