Maria Mesner

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Maria Mesner (born July 23, 1960 in Braunau am Inn ) is the scientific director of the Bruno Kreisky Archive in Vienna .

Life

Maria Mesner grew up in Braunau am Inn and graduated from the Bundesgymnasium there in 1978. After graduating from high school, she began a double degree in history and German philology and sociology at the University of Vienna .

After her graduation as Mag.a phil. She moved to the Renner Institute in Vienna, where she subsequently worked as a research assistant until 1999, worked in the historical department of the Renner Institute in the study and research center "Forward" and from October 1996 as head of the Renner social sciences and documentation department -Institute worked.

In 1994 she obtained her doctorate in Dr. phil at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna and has also worked as a lecturer at the Institutes for History and Contemporary History at the University of Vienna since 1997.

In 2004 she completed her habilitation at the humanities and cultural studies faculty of the University of Vienna and received the venia docendi for "Contemporary History" and has also been a lecturer at the Gender Research Department at the University of Vienna since the 2007/08 academic year.

Maria Mesner has been the managing director of the Bruno Kreisky Archive in Vienna since 2000.

Other areas of activity

  • 1998–2001: Member of the scientific advisory board of the "Focus on women-specific, policy-relevant university research" at the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport
  • 09 / 1999–09 / 2005: Vice-President of the ITH (International Conference of Historians of the Workers' Movement and Other Social Movements), since then member of the Board of Trustees
  • since 12/2001: Co-editor of the ÖZG (Austrian Journal of History)
  • since 1997: board member of the IG external lecturers and freelance scientists, including:
  • 2000–2002: as President
  • 2004/05: Member of the program committee for humanities, cultural and social sciences at the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
  • since 2018: Director of Studies in History (SPL 7) at the University of Vienna

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personal data
SURNAME Sacrifice, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian archivist, head of the Kreisky Archive
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunau am Inn