Karin Liebhart

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Karin Liebhart (* 1963 in St. Pölten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian political scientist . She is a private lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna .

Life

Liebhart attended the AHS in St. Pölten (Lower Austria) from 1973 to 1981. She then studied political science and ethnology at the University of Vienna (Mag. Phil. 1987) and completed the university course in advertising and sales at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . In 1989 she was studying abroad at the University of Rostock in what was then the GDR . From 1988 to 1990 she studied postgraduate at the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. In 1998 she was at the University of Vienna with the political science dissertation On the Function of myths for political community structures to Dr. phil. PhD. 2007 habilitated it for political science at the University of Innsbruck (Topic: National and European memory policies after 1989 ) and was a lecturer at the University of Vienna.

She works as a lecturer at the Institutes for Political Science at the Universities of Vienna (since 1991), Innsbruck (1995/96) and Salzburg (1996). From 1990 to 2000 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting WKW in Vienna, from 1997 to 1998 at the Vienna Research Center "Discourse, Politics and Identity", from 1996 to 2003 at the Department of Social Sciences of the Austrian Institute for East and Southeast Europe ( OSI) in Vienna and from 2003 to 2006 at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna. In 2006 she became a Visiting Fellow at the Jean Monnet Chair / Institute of European Studies and International Relations at the Comenius University in Bratislava . In 2007 she was a visiting fellow at WSHE Łódź and in 2008 at the University of Montenegro . In 2008 she was also visiting professor for comparative political and cultural research with a special focus on transition states at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna and in 2009/10 at the Institute of Government and Politics at the University of Tartu . In 2012 she became a visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Most recently, she held the Austrian Marshall Plan Anniversary Chair at the University of New Orleans .

Liebhart is a member (since 1990 secretary) of the Society for Political Enlightenment (GfpA) in Vienna. Since 2009 she has been on the scientific advisory board of the Austrian exhibition of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum . In 2009 she became President of the Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA), previously she was on the Austrian Representative Executive Committee, and President of the Austrian Society for Political Science (ÖGPW). There she has been a member of the AGORA / Democracy Research section since 1994 . She has been one of the editors of Wahlkabine.at since 2002 . In 2002 she was a participant in the memorial sites working group of the Commission for Cultural Studies and Theater History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). In 2003 and 2007 she was an evaluator for the European Commission (6th and 7th Framework Program). In addition, it is u. a. Reviewer for the Austrian Journal for Political Science (ÖZP).

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SURNAME Liebhart, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Pölten , Lower Austria