Kerstin S. Jobst

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Kerstin Susanne Jobst (* 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German historian and university professor . She has been teaching at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna since 2012 .

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Jobst studied history, psychology, literary studies and Finno-Ugric Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Vienna between 1982 and 1988 . She then received doctoral scholarships from the Hanseatic University Foundation and the Hamburg Rotary Foundation for the years 1989 to 1992, followed by Slavic and doctoral studies at the universities of Mainz , Krakow and Vienna from 1989 to 1991 . From 1991 to 1993, Jobst was a scholarship holder of the Ukraïns'ka Akademia Nauk , the Polska Akademia Nauk and the DAAD and finally did her doctorate in 1994 at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on Polish and Ukrainian social democracy in Galicia .

Before and after her PhD Jobst from 1992 to 1995 as a Research Assistant and Research Associate at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, after which it was from 1995 to 2002 research assistant at the University of Hamburg. She received 2003 to 2004 a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and habilitated in 2005 at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on the Russian Crimea - discourse in the Russian Empire and received the Venia legendi for Modern and Eastern European history. In addition to her work as a lecturer in Hamburg, Jobst was a regular visiting professor at the University of Salzburg between 2006 and 2012 . In addition, from 2009 to 2011 she was a lecturer in “History and Societies of Eastern Europe” at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy in Hamburg. In 2010 she was a research fellow at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Leipzig and a visiting scholar at the Humanities Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig. Since August 2012 Jobst has been professor for “Societies and Cultures of Memory in Eastern Europe” at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna.

Her research focuses on the history of East Central and Eastern Europe, the Black Sea region, the Caucasus region and the Habsburg Monarchy, comparative research on empire and colonialism, the history of religion and hagiography, cultures of remembrance and historical politics, the history of tourism in eastern Europe and disaster research.

Jobst is co-editor of the Austrian Journal of History (ÖZG), a member of the Southeast Europe-Turkey-Black Sea Region Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , a member of the Russian-Austrian Commission of Historians and a member of the Military History Advisory Board of the Science Commission at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense and Sport .

Fonts (selection)

  • Between internationalism and nationalism. The Polish and Ukrainian Social Democrats in Galicia from 1890 to 1914. A contribution to the question of nationality in the Habsburg Empire (=  Hamburg publications on the history of Central and Eastern Europe. Vol. 2). Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1996 (dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1994).
  • The myth of togetherness. Galicia in Literature and History (=  The Eastern Series. New Series, Vol. 8). German Society for East European Studies, Hamburg 1998.
  • The pearl of the empire. The Russian Crimean Discourse in the Tsarist Empire (=  Historical Cultural Studies. Vol. 11). UVK, Konstanz 2007 (habilitation thesis, University of Hamburg, 2004).
  • History of Ukraine. Reclam, Stuttgart 2010; 2nd edition 2015.
  • Holy. Transcultural cults of worship from the Middle Ages to the present , Berlin 2017. Together with Dietlind Hüchtker, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-8353-3055-9
  • Kerstin S. Jobst (Ed.), Crimean Tatars , Austrian Journal for Historical Studies (ÖZG) / Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, 28 | 2017 / 1st study publisher. ISSN  1016-765X . Together with Ulrich Hofmeister.

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SURNAME Jobst, Kerstin S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jobst, Kerstin Susanne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg